
WMF for RAF Himalayan Venture training week
Day 1 - Movement skills, trail breaking, boot and crampon use, ice axe arrest
Day 2 - Steep ground, breaking through cornices, daggering, emergency rope use
Day 3 - Nav, pacing, timing, bearings, tactics, strategies, exped planning.
Day 4 - Exped day 1 nav, snow hole site locating, digging snow hole, personal admin and managment
Day 5 - Exped day 2, nav, glasaiding, avalanche terrain discussion, emergncy procedures
Based around Cairngorms and Creag Meagaidh
Area :
The Cairngorms
The Cairngorms are ‘a little piece of the arctic in Scotland’ according to the SMC Munros Guide and the area contains many of the tallest peaks in the East Highlands. Ben Macdui (1309m), Cairn Gorm (1244m) and Braeriach (1296) are probably three of the better known and the whole area is full of steep corries and high plateaux. Access to the mountains is typically from Aviemore or Braemar.