21:th of December

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Today we open door number 21.

This year the Abisko Ice climbing festival was born. And I think that this is a sign of an activity that will grow. In 2015 the festival will be held 26/2-1/3.

http://www.abiskoiceclimbing.com/

This upcoming year the celebration of 150 years since Matterhorn was climbed to the top. It was Edward Whymper who was the first to reach the summit.

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14:th of July 1865 Edward Wyhmper was the first on the summit of Matterhorn..

The triumph is a fact, and they  can feel secure that the Italian not has reach te top.  There is no fotprints in the snow. But the joy is short lived. During the descending four of the seven strong climbing team falls into a certain death. All of the climb he has written in a book. 1015 is Matterhorns year…

Want to read more…

http://www.adlibris.com/se/sok?q=edward%20whymper&pn=1

Navigation, when it comes to navigation you can keep the 4K in mind(In swedish)

Klocka (Watch) Kompass (compass) Karta(map) Kunskap(Knowledge), this is one thing that cant be replaced…

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Use your knowledge of time, how fast do you move (benchmark is 3km/hour). Always got a compass direction in case of poor visibility. Read the map befora and memorize. And use your experience and use your fantasy to build up diffrent scenarios to be prepered…

And now to thes weeks quis:

In one of the Stf mountain stations you can see this stuff. From wich of them is this picture taken from?

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Sen in the answer by SMS  befor tuesday evening to  +4673-701 2850. Yea and by the way: Frosten ligger vit på taken, Uffe badar bland isflaken. It was cold in the water in Lillsjön taday. But at least i was alert:-)

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