{"id":180001,"date":"2023-07-10T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=180001"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:38:10","slug":"maunakea-rangers-rope-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/10\/maunakea-rangers-rope-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Maunakea rangers participate in rope rescue training"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-main.jpeg\" alt=\"rangers during their rope training\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-main.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-main-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-main-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/maunakea\/\">Center for Maunakea Stewardship<\/a> rangers recently participated in rope rescue training exercises for technical rescue conducted inside the <abbr>W.M.<\/abbr> Keck Observatory and <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Infrared Telescope Facility in the Maunakea Science Reserve on Maunakea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-1-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"rangers during their rope training\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-180007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-1-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-1-93x130.jpeg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-ranger-training-1.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seven rangers spent the day alongside observatory personnel to learn rappelling and technical rescue training, which involves using ropes and rappelling in high environments within the three-story observatory structures.<\/p>\n<p>Safety training also included ascending and descending a fixed-rope system and understanding and operating a rope-rescue system in the event a rescue mission is ever needed.<\/p>\n<p>The Rope Rescue Training Certification will be an annual event for the rangers and other Maunakea Observatories personnel.<\/p>\n<p>For more information check out <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/maunakea\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Center for Maunakea Stewardship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-rangers-training.jpeg\" alt=\"rangers standing together\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-rangers-training.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-rangers-training-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/maunakea-rangers-training-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maunakea rangers participated in a rope rescue training at the W.M. Keck Observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1511,659,1421,14],"class_list":["post-180001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-center-for-maunakea-stewardship","tag-maunakea","tag-maunakea-observatories","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180001"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180044,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180001\/revisions\/180044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}