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JULY COVER STORIES INCLUDE:-
- UK ALPINE ROUTES: Sample some alpine routes in the UK.
- CHAIR LADDER : The south coast and Cornwall's finest.
- STOMPING GROUNDS: Karin Magog Yorkshire Limestone.
- YOU CAN CLIMB - TUFAS: Train those techniques with Steve McClure and Dave Binney.
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UK ALPINE ROUTES:
Alan is a British Mountain Guide with over 20 seasons in the Alps, climbs in the Himalaya, Alaska, New Zealand and South America as well as his beloved Scotland. His website www.westcoast-mountainguides.co.uk is the home of his guiding company as well as regularly updated conditions reports.
Fancy getting a request to pen a few words about training for the Alps, but not to include any snowy stuff! Now, as far as I can make out the Alps is not yet completely devoid of snow so any chance of snow climbing in Britain must be included in any training strategy.
Having got that off of my chest, let's try to put things into context. In the Alps, unlike in Britain it is normal to stay away from bad weather. That's not to say you need to reduce the importance of navigation, just that it comes into play far less often. Route choice, fitness and success on a short Alpine trip are key to an enjoyable time.
Most first time alpinists will head for snowy routes with some rock scrambling at around 3000-4000m in altitude. Don't go out to the Alps with a monster tick list and fire yourself up the first 4000m route in the book. Take time to acclimatise and ease into some simple climbs that you will enjoy and succeed on. Nothing worse than failure to spoil a good holiday.
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Karin Magog's – Stomping Grounds - Yorkshire Limestone
Gear- First Aid Kits
At the other extreme of first aid stereotypes are the strapping, wholesome and slightly scary types who often emerge from the crowd at times of crisis and start bossing people about saying, Stand back, I'm a first aider. In the mountains things are different. Most of us (including me) are not doctors, nurses or paramedics, but just climbers trying to deal with a problem as best we can. When things go wrong, we are usually a part of it, we are often tired, scared and maybe in real danger. We are often therefore nearly a casualty too.
The contents of your first aid kit and the skill and imagination you have in applying first aid can make the difference between a story to tell and a disaster.
The trouble is that by definition a first aid kit is a solution to a problem, the exact nature of which you can only guess. This inevitably makes people anxious. Does someone else have some vital component that will make the difference in a crisis? There is always an I'll show you mine if you show me yours feeling about first aid kits.
So here are some thoughts on them. You will inevitably both agree with some of it and disagree with other bits. You can pick over the contents of one particular version of my own kit at the end. Even the definitive text book Medicine for Mountaineering (see later) has a remark about its own
suggestions for the contents of first aid kits, it says,
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