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Survival Skillset

Lesson 5 of 12

Sound: whistles, voices and the six-a-minute signal

30 min

Mist has come down on the plateau and visibility is twenty metres. You stop for a moment and, somewhere off to the left, faint and thin, you hear a whistle. A pause. Another blast. Another. You count without meaning to. Is that someone in trouble, a group keeping together, or a shepherd working a dog? And if it is someone in trouble, what do you do: shout back, go towards…

In this lesson

  • The International Mountain Distress Signal: six a minute
  • How to send it
  • Common mistakes
  • Replying: three a minute
  • If you hear someone else's distress signal
  • Using a whistle well
  • Choosing and carrying one
  • Blowing it
  • Group signals
  • Voice, calling and listening
  • Calling efficiently
  • Answering searchers

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