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Walking on a bearing

31st May 2017 | 0 comments

Hold the compass firmly in your hand in front of your body, making sure that there are no metal objects nearby. Rotate yourself until the needle sits in the correct manner over the arrow on the bottom of the housing, ensuring that you have the north end of the needle, often painted red, over the pointed part of the arrow…

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Buried axe belay

29th May 2017 | 0 comments

Glenmore Lodge instructor Mark Chaddwick runs through the winter mountaineering skill of digging and constructing a buried axe back up for a bucket seat belay, further increasing your safety when ascending steeper slopes.