Winter is upon us and many of us will be out in the hills having fun and the occasional epic that will be fun in the retelling. Before you get on the snow and ice, make sure you are schooled up on keeping yourself safe. In this three-part series we are looking at how to keep warm, understand hypothermia and manage an emergency situation in cold conditions.

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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are about to begin and once again we have competition climbing gold on the line. The combined Boulder and Lead event is great watching for climbing enthusiasts—with some of the world's best sport climbers present at the competition—and an exciting format with parkour, swing-a-lings and no-tex volumes in the Boulder and vomit-inducing resistance and pressured 'no second-chance' problem solving in the Lead.