Mountain Rescue

More than five hundred delegates from all over the world are expected to participate in the International Congress for Alpine Rescue by the International Comission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR), which will be hosted by the Hellenic Rescue Team in Thessaloniki, in October 2024.

The volunteers of the NGO Hellenic Rescue Team now have a new portable operations center at their disposal, thanks to donations collected for the hiking project "Olympus 12 Refuge Trail."

After 14 days of a solitary march on the mountain of the gods, Mount Olympus, the volunteer of the NGO Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT), Lorenzo Nerantzis, completed the Olympus 12 Refuge Trail, a hiking effort that took place for the first time in Greece

On September 22, Lorenzo Nerantzis, a volunteer of the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) from Thessaloniki, will attempt something that happens for the first time in Greece.

French skier, Valentin Pahon, is telling the story of his rescue in Olympus

The climber was rescued and is a good health condition

Tragic ending had yesterday, Sunday 24/7/2016, at Anthohori of Metsovo the excursion of a climber’s group from Ioannina

An instructor from ANENA international organization and three Hellenic Rescue Team’s instructors trained 15 people, all mountain professionals, in topics such as preventing accidents from avalanches and search and rescue drills.

Members of Hellenic Rescue Team’s branch were helping in food distribution and in providing First Aid where needed.