24th March: Den Mountain Rescue Service - is associated with Czech skiers Bohumil Hanc and Vaclav Vrbata, who died March 24, 1913 at an international race in the mountains. The organizers had a race due to extreme weather worsened canceled, but this first ride, and scantily clad Han� learned. In blizzard him find his friend Vrbata, who podchlazen�mu competitor provided an article of clothing itself but to the Gold Hill on the way to help umrznul. At the same place reminds skiers stone mound.

The first organized mountain rescue service in the Czech Republic was established May 12, 1935 in the mountains, where he had worked several volunteer mountain rescue clubs. Uniform Czechoslovak Mountain Rescue Service (HS) established on 1 December 1954, when it was merged Czech Mountain Rescue Service with the Tatra mountain service. Already in 1969, they were separated as a result of federalization, until the unitary Czechoslovakia. The complete separation of the two HS brought to disintegration of the state in 1993. Currently in the country has a professional Mountain Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, ops (public benefit corporation) and the Voluntary Mountain Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, os (civic associations).