Self-help box
A Selbsthilfebox even Bergungsbox , is a weatherproof, unlocked box, a rescue carrier and other first-aid material as containing bandages, breathing aids and rails, and is installed at remote points in the mountains.
It enables mountaineers and hikers to help and transport each other in the event of an accident before the mountain rescue service can arrive.
The self-help boxes in Saxon Switzerland are particularly well-known ; the first were set up in the 1960s. They are financed and maintained by mountain sports and mountain rescue associations and donations, but recently also through a system of sponsorships by hikers, families, mountaineers or companies.
photos
Sample of a self-help box of the Bergwacht Sachsen in the SBB climbing hall Dresden, Germany:
"Stretcher boxes" in Great Britain:
Stretcher box Mickledore
Stretcher Box Styhead
Web links
- Directory of self-help boxes (rescue boxes) in Saxon Switzerland and map of Bergwacht Sachsen 2014 , Tourismusverband Sächsische Schweiz eV, accessed on September 17, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wido Woicik, Bergwacht Sachsen: Self-help boxes again have a godfather, in: Der Neue Sächsische Bergsteiger, 26 (2015) 1, p. 23
- ↑ Wido Woicik, Bergwacht Sachsen: 10 years sponsorships for self-help boxes in Saxon Switzerland, in: Der Neue Sächsische Bergsteiger, 24 (2013) 3, p. 21
- ^ German Red Cross eV: Self-help boxes mountain rescue in Saxony. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .