Use personal locator beacons and satellite communicators

Relying on digital mapping can erode your traditional navigation skills. Could a refresher course be the answer? Alex Roddie joins an Austrian Alpine Club-organised course in Eryri to find out

What is it? A technology that connects mobile phones to satellites so they can make calls and browse the internet. It can provide a signal in remote areas where phone masts don’t reach. How does it wo

You can do it with your eyes shut

SKILLS, TIPS & TRICKS TO GET YOU HIKING LIKE A PRO

Norman Hadley shares a tale of youthful misadventure, when a navigational mistake on the Cairngorm plateau seemed to defy all constraints of space and time

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