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Pakistani women scale the heights in rescue teams

Posted February 18th, 2021 by librarian-hd
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Avalanche rescue training in Chitral [image courtesy: AKAH-P]
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The Third Pole

Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training “involved climbing mountains and gorges using ropes and harnesses, using ziplines and rappelling. Any wrong move and you can start a rock fall,” she explained.

Handling serious casualties, “with broken bones, head, neck and back injuries,” was also part of the training, she added.

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