GLACIER TRAVEL.—It is easier to stay out of a crevasse than to get out. Here a mountaincraft instructor demonstrates the prusik loop method of extraction from a crevasse. The system requires a lot of complicated effort on the part of the fallen climber while those above do little to help.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 11
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50GLACIER TRAVEL.—It is easier to stay out of a crevasse than to get out. Here a mountaincraft instructor demonstrates the prusik loop method of extraction from a crevasse. The system requires a lot of complicated effort on the part of the fallen climber while those above do little to help. Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 11
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