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Entries from February 2009

The Oscar for best outdoor video goes to…….

February 19th, 2009 View Comments

This week has been a mental one as we have been out and about shooting video for the website and for a video noobie such as myself, it has been a really interesting experience. I’ve long been a big fan of videos on websites when selling stuff as people get a much better idea how [...]

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January Twitter Competition – The Results

February 12th, 2009 View Comments

Announcing the winner of our

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Think you could make it to the top?

February 9th, 2009 View Comments

Ben Nevis Challenge
Alzheimer’s Society has set a UK wide challenge to raise money and awareness for thousands of families who are affected by dementia .
700, 000 people live with dementia in the UK alone and avid climbers have been set the challenge to conquer Britain’s highest peak. Ben Nevis stands at 4,409 feet and is [...]

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What is the absolute minimum to take on a long hike?

February 9th, 2009 View Comments

Hiking is serious business. Leaving home without the essentials and knowing how to use them is not a good idea. No real adventurer would leave home without these basics:
Maps
If you can’t read a map, and read it well, you don’t belong in the wilderness. Good, colour contoured maps that show elevation, latitude, and longitude are [...]

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The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show 2009

February 9th, 2009 View Comments

March sees the annual return of The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show at the NEC Birmingham. The 2009 guess speakers have now been announced.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Know too many as the “World’s Greatest Living Explorer “, Fiennes was the first man to reach the South and North Pole by surface travel. More recently in 2003 he completed [...]

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Find of the Month – Signed copy of “Who’s Who of Climbing”

February 9th, 2009 View Comments

Webtog’s team of researchers are consistently crawling the web to bring all our regular followers a unique “Find of the Month” and boy do we have a beauty to start with…
This is every keen explorers chance to own a unique piece of climbing memorabilia – A copy of Who’s Who of Climbing written by Colin [...]

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