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Category: Ice
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A piece written by our resident Mountain Guide Andrew Mallinson, penned before Christmas but very pertinent as the snow and ice returns to the UK and many of us are now gearing up and getting out to the Cairngorms and other areas … So what do we want in our seasonal stockings ? Well, with…
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Get out. Do something. Do anything. Outdoors.
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Its frozen ropes, sodden gloves, painful and somehow also numb fingers, running noses and feet of frozen pins and needles.
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We have everyone turning up from total beginners through to GB Ice Climbing team members and sponsored climbers but it’s all about the banter and having fun.
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As we broke trail we could hear and see small avalanches all around the face and surrounding gullies.. yeah we needed a new plan!
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we chanced our luck and James and I headed back to see if Lillaz was in and were rewarded with what I can only describe as the most amazing water ice , multi pitch cascade climbing I have even experienced.
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