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MCSA :: Venster Buttress :: November 2006

ground-based technical cliff rescue training exercise

Highline involving getting the patient safely off the cliff and over the crocodile infested waters at the base of the cliff... (!?)

Hikers walking up path on Table Mountain surrounded by pink watsonias, cablecar overhead

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
Hikers walking up path on Table Mountain surrounded by pink watsonias, cablecar overhead

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Pink watsonia flowers on slopes below cliffs and cable car

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Pink watsonia flowers covering slopes of mountain

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
packaging the patient

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
lunch break

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Rock agama lizard (kogelmanetjie) basking on a rock

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Pink watsonia flowers covering slopes of mountain with Devil's Peak behind

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
starting the lower

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
lower station

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
patient & impatient doctor

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
Bottom station

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
The good doctor Rik

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
Upper highline station

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S&R Practice at the Lower Buttresses - 5 Nov 2006
Pateint is reached - Raymond sent down to look scout for a good upper station for the highline

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