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mountain rescue
Used attrib. and absol. to designate an organization for rescuing mountaineers (sense 3) in distress.
1956F. T. K. Bullmore Dark Haven xxiv. 182, I think the best thing I can do is to have all leaders of Mountain Rescue Units up to London for a round-table talk. Ibid., I couldn't help thinking of the many..difficulties that these Mountain Rescue Squads would have to face. Ibid. xxvi. 189 Roxborough had been making great progress with the Mountain Rescue Organization. To help him with the technical difficulties of mountaineering he had unearthed..an Austrian mountain guide. 1957R. G. Collomb Dict. Mountaineering 108 Mountain districts in Britain and the Alps have their own mountain rescue posts... Mountain rescue teams are local organizations made up of people working in the district. 1959‘G. Carr’ Swing Away, Climber iv. 74 Telephone Higgs at the Pen-y-gwryd for the mountain rescue stretcher. 1971O. Norton Corpse-Bird Cries v. 85 There was a mountain rescue van there. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon i. 26 He..had spent some years with the Royal Air Force in Mountain Rescue, and was a good steady goer. |