I haven’t been able to get into the hills and mountains for some time, partly because of the conditions and partly because I’ve been focusing on training for the Inverness half-marathon on March 8. There have been nine deaths in the UK hills in the last month – four in Snowdonia, four in the Highlands and one…
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Cairngorms
On the weekend that three climbers were killed in an avalanche on Buachaille Etive Mor, it was timely that I and 10 others were learning how to assess avalanche risk, albeit 100 miles to the north-east in the Cairngorms. We were taking part in a two-day Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust course, based at Ardenbeg Outdoor Centre, in Grantown-on-Spey. Aged 27,…
Heights of Madness 