As it continues to surge in popularity, we take a look at dry tooling, its history and how the pursuit emerged from mixed ...

This correlates with my findings when I tested it, with good performance on soft snow but less good on steeper, firmer snow or turfy rock. Alex Roddie tested these ice axes on a range of day ...

Lets start with the ice axe. Many of the older instruction books will tell you ... as well then you may want a more technical boot as they give you more feel on rock. Once you’ve found the right boot ...