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The BBC are reporting the death of Hugh McNicoll the founder of Glencoe-based Mountain Technology, makers of the classic and much-loved Vertige axe. He had moved to Australia after Mountain Technology went out of business.

See the BBC website here.

Mountain Technology axes - great bits of kit. Some are still in use today.
UKC News, Sep 2012
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