Many things in climbing and mountaineering are cut-and-dried. A rope will take a maximum shock loading before it will break. Navigating off the top of Ben Nevis in thick cloud requires accuracy in the distance and the direction. But some things are more art than science, and short roping is one of them. Yet for a Mountain Guide it is literally the difference between life and death.
Read MoreUsing line features (paths, streams, walls, etc) as a primary source of info when navigating in the mountains is very common, but in reality they are more useful as a secondary source of info, and this is why:
So said Alex Caulfield after he’d been given a toolkit of simple efficient techniques for staying safe and solving problems, on our Rope Tricks & Rescues for SPA & Beyond workshop in April this year. I have typically seen three groups of people who benefit from a workshop like this:
Read MoreOne of the best things about my job is the variety of the work. In a two-week period in June, this was my work schedule:
I ran a short-roping workshop for full AMI members at the weekend, and we had two great days out in the mountains - day one was in Langdale, and day two in the Coniston fells.
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