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New wallpapers

New wallpapers

Six news wallpapers (from the 2012 catalog) are now available for download.

30/05/2012 - On-site rescue - Rope access and confined spaces Read more

Labor of Love : Maurice, founder of "GRIMP" search and rescue team in Belgium

Labor of Love : Maurice, founder of "GRIMP" search and rescue team in Belgium

Maurice Levaux, 57 years old, is head of GRIMP, the hazardous environment search and rescue group in Aywaille, Belgium ("grimpe" is another word for "climbing" in French thus the acronym). GRIMP's creation and history are closely linked to a recent event. In 1997, during a club outing at the Sy/Ourthe cliff, one of Maurice's close friends was involved in an accident.

09/12/2011 - Technical rescue Read more

GRIMPday 2009 Video

GRIMPday 2009: Rescue professionals with no fear GRIMPday is an international, multidisciplinary technical rope rescue competition which takes place every October in Namur. The fourth edition was a face-off between 23 teams, from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany. The participants were firefighters, soldiers, police officers, rescuers, etc.

27/10/2009 Read more

2009 European Tree Climbing Championships

The 2009 European Tree Climbing Championships in took place on June 13 and 14 in Malmo, Sweden. This competitiion gathered 55 tree professionals from across Europe to compete in several different cateogies: foot lock rope climbing, limb walking, precision limb tossing and aerial rescue, etc.

06/08/2009 Read more

Treecare championships video

Follow Nathanael Gros during the Tree Climbing Euro Championships, which took place in Turin from 19 to 22 June 2008, Parco del Valentino.

18/03/2009 Read more

Ski lift rescue in video

Place: Gmunden, Austria
This rescue exercise in a telecabin took place in May 2006 with the Gmunden mountain rescue team.
It shows the use of Petzl equipment for ski lift-telecabin rescue.

13/11/2006 Read more

Petzl & FDNY - the EXO solution

07/02/2006 Read more