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Navigation Skills

Helen Mark meets mountain rescue teams in Snowdonia to find out how walkers are taking risks without the right navigation skills to get out of trouble.

More of us are being encouraged to explore the British countryside but how many navigation skills should we have before we venture out? Helen Mark travels to Northern Snowdonia to meet the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation who are called out to an incident every 3 days. Some they say are simply avoidable with people venturing out unprepared and lacking the navigation skills to get themselves back on track when lost.
Helen joins a navigation course to test her own skills which she admits may be rusty since her Duke of Edinburgh award to see if the compass is mightier than the GPS. She asks how to ensure people are properly equipped without putting off newcomers from the countryside.

Produced in Birmingham by Anne-Marie Bullock.

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25 minutes

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Sat 19 May 2012 06:07

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  • Thu 17 May 2012 15:00
  • Sat 19 May 2012 06:07

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