Top Tips Lightweight Walking - Tips for Beginners
Are you looking to shed weight, but unsure where to start? Fiona Russell asks some keen walkers about their simple strategies for going light on the hills.
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Birds How to Identify Common Seabirds
Whether it's a coastal walk or a sea cliff adventure, you're bound to encounter seabirds on any day out to the British coast. But can you tell your guillemot from your gannet? As a supplement to our guides on moorland birds and upland raptors, the...
Skills Welsh (Cymraeg) for Hillwalkers
Welsh language permeates the hills of Wales, and an understanding of some basic vocabulary can really enrich any day's walk there. Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams are our linguistic guides...
Top Tips Preparing for Your ML When You Don't Live in the Hills
Living far from the hills is hard enough for most of us; but what if you're preparing for a Mountain Leader assessment, and stuck in the city? Jake Phillips has some ideas...
High Altitude and Acclimatisation Part 1 - An Introduction
In the first of our four-part series on high altitude travel, Jamie Macdonald (high altitude...
Rescue The Casualty Card - A Forgotten First Aid Tool
The ABCs may be the essential bedrock of first aid, but there's another simple tool that's often overlooked. Will Legon...
Skills Magnetic North is Moving East - Here's How to Correct For It
We should all know the difference between magnetic north, the direction your compass points, and the grid...
Avalanche Basics Part 2: Staying Safe
In part 1 of this series Mountaineering Instructor Mark Reeves looked at how avalanches occur; here in part 2 he suggests...
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Make A Mountain First Aid Kit
Kath Wills is a member of the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team and a Recue Emergency Care (REC) first aid instructor. She runs Active First Aid in Snowdonia. Here, she advises what to put in a comprehensive general mountain first aid kit for a group of people...
Top Tips Ten Top Tips for your first Alpine Adventure
Dave Searle gives us ten handy hints for our first steps in to the alpine arena. Headed to climb on the big ones this summer? Check out what he has to say...
Using SARLOC for Rescue on your Smartphone
Getting smart with your smartphone might just save your life in an emergency, writes Judy Whiteside, Editor of Mountain Rescue Magazine. 'There are many apps for smartphone which show the phone's location, but these rely on the lost person having...
Ten Serious Mistakes Winter Walkers Make
From dropping a glove to falling through a cornice, basic slip-ups can have serious consequences in winter. But most mistakes ought to be avoidable. Here's what not to do...
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