Just in is the ultra-lightweight emergency bivvy bag from Adventure Medical Kits, a neat, compact little survival aid that means you have no excuse to go without, even when you're going light.In fact we've been carrying one of these for a about a

More in today's Guardian on the 'accidental' death of a man on BenNevis in 1962, which is now being treated as a potential murder.If you've missed this rather bizarre story, a former school pupilhas come forward with a claim that 23-year-old student volunteer,Howard "Tim" Keeley ...

An interesting glimpse into the future when a walker taking partin the TGO Challenge was rescued in Scotland thanks to a GPS-basedSPoT emergency location device.Niels VIntner, a Danish walker, was taken ill in the Glen Etivearea, reportedly

Due to be launched at the end of May, 2012, the new Fast Find Ranger PLB is a potentially life-saving new GPS emergency rescue beacon that you can use to alert the rescue services from even the most remote location including anywhere in the UK

, that makes sense.And so far, that's the sum of it. For once, it's test kit I don't really want to use. There is no way of 'testing' it short of a real, life-threatening wilderness emergency when mobiles won't work and extricating yourself isn't an option

. Emerging from hibernation.. Oooh get you, been lurking iin your warm basket all winter, but the sunshine's calling and you 're heading back to the hills for dry paths and grippy rock. And of course you

Opposition to the unsuitable use of green lanes by motorisedvehicles seems to be hardening with the formation of a new groupcommitted to limiting the access of trail bikes and 4x4s to ancienthorse and cart tracks.The new Green Lanes Protection Group (GLPG) is formed by14 bodies ...

of the Adventure Medical Kits Heatsheets Emergency Bivvy. It's a tiny but reasonably robust waterproof and windproof bag with a reflective inner surface that weights just 105 grammes. It's so small you can simply stash it in a pack pocket or even a small mountain

Everyone knows they’re supposed to carry a first aid kit with them into the hills, but apart from sticking the odd plaster on a cut how many know what to do with their kit in an emergency? OutdoorMagic members got together for an intensive

advantage is that sitting with your mates is a realmorale booster if things to go wrong. You can chat, fight overemergency chocolate and so on.Finally, group shelters are for more than just emergencies. They makefantastic temporary venues for group lunch