Rigging for Rescue owner Mike Gibbs stands among some of the equipment he uses for teaching and constructing rope rigging for technical, skilled rope work. Gibbs, a member of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team, helped volunteers construct and use a complicated rope maneuver called a Norwegian reeve to rescue an 11-year-old girl who survived a car accident on Red Mountain Pass last year. Photo by William Woody | Special to the Plaindealer
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
Volunteers saved an 11-year-old girl from the bottom of a cliff thanks largely to the skills of Mike Gibbs, who's made a career out of training rescuers
It took Mike Gibbs all of five seconds on that morning in early August to figure out it was time to execute one of the world’s most complicated rope rescues.
