Tricia Gill is a secondary school teacher and recreational skier. She regularly takes groups of students out of the classroom on outdoor trips, in the UK and abroad.
Read MoreAlan Kimber is well-known in the world of mountain guiding. He is an IFMGA Guide, and he started up and ran West Coast Mountain Guides for 25 years. With his wife Sue he set up the family business of self-catering accommodation at Calluna, Fort William.
Read MoreThe first post in this series showed how to escape the system, the second explained how to pass a knot, and the third was all about in-the-system hoists. This fourth post is about a simple tape hoist for whenever you need to free up a loaded knot or if you have something jammed under load - your 'get out of jail free' card. You can use this whether you are in the system or out of the system.
Read MoreThis is the first in a new series, where we'll be giving you an insight into the reasons behind the decision to hire a Mountain Guide. Wendy Dodds is a fell running legend. Now in her 60s, she is still competing at the highest standard. As a sports medicine specialist, she also travelled with several British Olympic and World Championships athletics squads.
Read MoreAt the beginning of last year we published a post on seven ways to make your goals more achievable in 2017. We set out to write something similar for this year, but we don't think we can improve on last year's post, so here it is again, with a few updates.
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