Skills & Kit
Hypothermia Signs Outdoors
Shivering, stumbling and confusion can be the first clues; spotting them early and acting calmly gives a cold companion the best chance.
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Skills & Kit
PLB vs Satellite Messenger
One is a government-backed distress beacon, the other a subscription texting device with an SOS button; here is how they differ when it matters.
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Skills & Kit
Layering for Cold Weather
Base, mid and shell each do a different job; get them right and adjust as you go, and a cold wet day in the hills stays comfortable.
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Skills & Kit
Taking OS Grid References
Along the corridor, then up the stairs: a plain guide to reading four and six-figure National Grid references from a paper map.
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Outdoors
Bothies in Scotland Explained
Free, basic and shared by whoever turns up: how Britain's remote bothies work and the simple code that keeps them open for everyone.
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Outdoors
National Three Peaks Challenge
Walking times for each summit, the long drives between Scotland, England and Wales, and how to plan the challenge safely and considerately.
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Outdoors
Munros, Corbetts and Wainwrights
How Britain's best-known hill lists are defined, who keeps them, and why one summit can count for several lists or for none at all.
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Outdoors
UK Wild Camping Laws
Where you may pitch a tent without asking, where you need permission, and what the Supreme Court decided about Dartmoor.
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Ocean
Kitesurfing Lessons for Beginners
From flying a trainer kite on the beach to riding upwind, the stages every beginner goes through and how long each usually takes.
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Ocean
Shipping Forecast Explained
Gale warnings, synopsis, sea areas: the fixed pattern of the Met Office bulletin and the exact meaning of every word in it.
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Ocean
Day Skipper vs Yachtmaster
From Competent Crew to Yachtmaster Ocean, the RYA ladder explained step by step, with the logged sea time each rung demands.
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Ocean
Atlantic Rowing Campaign Costs
The boat, the entry fee, the certificates and the shipping each come with their own bill, and every one needs a current quote.
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Ocean
Atlantic Rowing Crossing Times
From the trade-wind run to Antigua to the colder route east, what sets the length of an ocean row across the Atlantic.
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Exploration
First Atlantic Rowing Crossing
Two Norwegian-American fishermen crossed the Atlantic under oars in 1896, seventy years before ocean rowing became a sport.
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Exploration
Franklin Expedition Explained
In 1845 two Royal Navy ships sailed for the Northwest Passage and never came home; this is what the evidence now tells us.
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Exploration
Sir John Ross's Victory
A private steamer, a gin distiller's money and four winters on Boothia: how Ross's crew lost their ship yet came home with a new map.
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Polar
Northern Lights in Scotland
Go north, wait for a clear, moonless winter night and watch the alerts: how to give yourself the best chance of seeing the Mirrie Dancers.
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Polar
Arctic vs Antarctic
Polar bears or penguins, sea ice or ice sheet, Arctic states or a treaty: a side-by-side guide to the two ends of the Earth.
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Polar
Northwest Passage Explained
From centuries-old dreams of a short cut to Asia to Amundsen's little sloop Gjøa, the story of the Arctic sea route through Canada.
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