Thread: Alpine Hunting - Safety Tip

Originally Posted by Bill999

makes sense when you put it like that. im yet to use a ice axe on my thar expeditions

could you wiser mountaineers reccomend a decent one?

As GB has stated, just hire/buy a 'general m'taineering axe', when your holding it like a walking stick your arm should be straight and the 'spike' just touching the floor, get a 'leash'....you will own it longer!!!!!!

learn how to 'self arrest' from preferably a mountaineer, otherwise 'you tube'....you have it on 'the hill side' so when you lose your footing/slip you just fall onto it without having to twist your body because its on the other side!!!!

above all, be bloody careful up there!!!!!