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Mountain Safety | FAQs

Mountain Safety FAQs

  • Clothing & Equipment 
  • The Danger of Lightning
  • Enjoy the Scottish Hills in Safety
  • How to Find an Instructor or Guide
  • Hypothermia Information page
  • Jack & Jill Climbing up Tower Ridge
  • Guidance to Mountaineers Receiving Professional Instruction from Guides or Instructors
  • Qualifications or Experience
  • Alarms Bells on the Ring of Steall
  • Route Cards
  • Winter Boots
  • Winter Hillwalking
  • Skin Cancer - advice from HSE

 

Can't find what you're looking for here? Try these:

  • Ben Nevis Navigation
  • Navigation Advice
  • Emergency procedures
  • Mountain Rescue

or contact the MCofS Mountain Safety Adviser
Tel: 01738 493 942
Email: msa_mcofs@hotmail.co.uk

The Mountaineering Council of Scotland
The Old Granary, West Mill Steret, Perth, PH1 5QP
Telephone. 01738-493 942
Email. info@mcofs.org.uk
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland Participation Statement
“The MCofS recognises that climbing and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions and involvement.”