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Survival Skillset

Lesson 2 of 10

Cold on British hills: the Dark Peak and the Cairngorm plateau

40 min

British hills are small by world standards. The Dark Peak moors top out at about 630 m and the Cairngorm plateau at a little over 1,300 m. Neither has glaciers or thin air. Both have killed fit young people in a single night, because both sit in the path of Atlantic weather that brings wind, rain, sleet and snow, often together, to ground with little shelter and few features. This…

In this lesson

  • The Dark Peak, 1964: the Four Inns walk
  • What happened
  • The decisions
  • What the land offered
  • What we can learn
  • The Cairngorm plateau, 1971
  • The two cases together
  • Check yourself
  • Key points

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