Wakatipu Alpine Cliff Rescue

Wakatipu Alpine Cliff Rescue Wakatipu ACR is a non-profit voluntary organisation that requires a specific skill set to help those who get in trouble on steep and treacherous terrain

Wakatipu ACR are a team of local volunteers that are highly skilled in specalised rescue techniques for treacherous conditions.

Greetings all friends and followers - if you need us to help you the process is best activated by simply calling 111 - P...
02/07/2018

Greetings all friends and followers - if you need us to help you the process is best activated by simply calling 111 - POLICE - explain your situation and request assistance - this is the quickest and easiest way to get a response from our Mountain Rescue Team.
If you feel your life or health (you or others) is threatened and that you need help to resolve that - the earlier you can call the quicker we can respond.
Weather changes and darkness can make the whole job a lot more involved and longer if you delay.
Any injury (even quite small) that immobilises you or someone in your party is a serious problem - removal from the environment is the only way it can be resolved.
Use your mobile phone to dial 111 or activate a PLB.

Cliff rescue training - lower to location, pick up then raise - with minimal crew
14/06/2018

Cliff rescue training - lower to location, pick up then raise - with minimal crew

HETs team training
14/06/2018

HETs team training

12/06/2018

Karl Johnson lowers ``patient'' Rupert Gardiner down a rock face at Arawata Tce during a Queenstown Alpine and Cliff Rescue team exercise on...

27/04/2018
Ben Lomond Peak 25/04/18 - 10pm - Person stranded by terrain and darkness on the South face (well off route) - Team Heli...
27/04/2018

Ben Lomond Peak 25/04/18 - 10pm - Person stranded by terrain and darkness on the South face (well off route) - Team Heli in under NVG - climb down to target on rope, belayed back to very near the summit. Heli out from trail on N. Karl, Derek, Georges, Chris

19/04/2018

Quite impressive rescue in Europe

Rigging and lowering on a rock face with space confines
20/03/2018

Rigging and lowering on a rock face with space confines

RESCUE OF 2 STRANDED PEOPLE on a slip in the Invincible Valley - Off the Rees Valley Glenorchy - locating target took lo...
02/03/2018

RESCUE OF 2 STRANDED PEOPLE on a slip in the Invincible Valley - Off the Rees Valley Glenorchy - locating target took longer than the HETS extraction - Chris, Cam, Rupert

This goes to show helicopters can't always come to the rescue. Mega effort required by rescue personnel in Austria
19/02/2018

This goes to show helicopters can't always come to the rescue. Mega effort required by rescue personnel in Austria

It has been a fairly busy week for the team. One rescue of lost trampers from the Queens Drive on Sunday night. With som...
19/01/2018

It has been a fairly busy week for the team. One rescue of lost trampers from the Queens Drive on Sunday night. With some ace flying in strong winds and using Night Vision. Then on Thursday afternoon a climber took a lead fall on the West face of Double Cone injuring his ankle. His climbing partner helped him hobble half way around the Queens Drive as cloud was preventing a heli evac. When the the cloud did lift the team helped him back to the waiting heli. Thanks to the team of volunteers for always being available.

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