SCRAMBLING FOR BEGINNERS
Sep 02, 2022
3 minutes
SCRAMBLING describes using your hands and feet to ascend a rocky step, or several steps. This could be as part of a hillwalk, up a buttress, or quite often a ridge between summits or up to a summit. It defines the grey area between hillwalking and rock climbing, where additional skills are required, but not necessarily all the safety precautions that rock climbing provides.
How difficult is it?
Scrambling has grades that are used to describe how hard a certain route might be. These grades take into account the
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