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Men in Arctic suits. learn

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to save lives in the snow

by JAMES STUART

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ROM end to end Glon Isla was white. Only the black water of

the river relieved the stark monotone, and cven the river was frozen where rocka checked its speed. The clouds lowered over the mountains; he blizzard. worsened.

It was just the weather in which an aeroplane might get lost and crash unseen on some Highland peak.

Because of this hazard, the Royal Air Force have Mountain Rescue teams ready to go into action the instant an alarm is raised. Three teams cover Scot- land; others are based in Wales and in the English mountains.

Hundreds of square miles of mountains in the Central Highlands are the "beat" of the Mountain Rescue team based at Edzell Airfield, An- gua. Once a week the team, all volunteers, stop their everyday work and go off on

an overnight moun- tain exercise. The comman- der, 29-year-old Flight Lleu- tenant James Pettigrew, took us in his jeep which headed the little four- vehicle convoy.

With us was Paddy Caro- Jan, a young Irishman. He and Sergeant Fergus Tay- lor Nelson, of Glasgow, are the only "full-time" mem- bers of the team. While the others are

normally

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1951,

MOUNTAIN RESCUE

WIRELESS OPERATOR Ken Bleasdale keeps in touch with the rescue parties and with headquarters from the radio ven, while Flight Lieutenant Jomer Fattigrew, the tram's commanding offices, prepares for a moonlight climb,"

A ROPE TO HOLD .

A CLIMBER gets a helping hand from his colleagues on a tricky bit of anow-covered rock. Each man carries hard rations.

over-

mechanics, fitters and drivers, Nelson and Carolan laxation. He is an ex-Halton "run" the little hut that is· (Bucks) apprentice, the Mountain Rescue office

We had intended to go and stores.

glen, right up the Jimmie Pettigrew, who shadowed at the north by lives with hía wife and the 3502ft. high Glas Maol. three-month-old

at. But a mile or two short the Montrose, is an engineering narrow road was blocked officer. He is studying for by snow. Even the engineering examinations plough had been abandoned, and finds that the Mountain and nothing could get past Rescue team gives him re- that, anyway. Nearby was

son

Bnow

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

A medium yellow filter will help you to picture flasoy, bil- lowing clouds on bright, sunny days.

FILTERS TO HELP YOUR PICTURES

FRIEND of mine who has And it's easy to use since it tans of been taking pictures several simply silps over the years stopped me the other day your camera. Then you're ready with a question. It seems he had to shoot. The only thing you need read about Alters not long be- to remember is to increase your fore and wanted to know if

they

exposure because the filter cuts could be used on any camera... down on the blue light entering a box camera. I assured the camera, which builds up con- even him they could. In fact, na I trast between sky and clouds. poluted out, some picture takers So you must have a longer ex- have won considerable fame for posure to compensate for the their shots - using only box fact that some light is blocked cameras with a wise choice of With a medlúm, yellow filter like the K2 Fliter this simply

picture good and either by using a

a larger long will often make good pletures opening or a somewhat slower batter. Particularly, pictures shutter speed. And, if you have taken un bright, sunny days in a box camera with fixed speed summer when the blue sky is and lens opening, you can sull

A

for Alter will ranko means doubling your exposure,

flocked with white clouds. For use

For use the filter. It's simply a mat a filter helps to darken the sky ter of loading a box camera with and bring out those white flecey extra-fast Alm...your dealer clouds. It gives more contrast can tell you about it .......... and between the sky and subject shooting as usual. The speed of when you're pleturing land- the flm will balance, the loss of scapes and certain alters will light through the flier, to give out the haze that otherwise mars a good negative. "..

distant landscrip.on and mountain So don't, as my friend did, fali

scones.

So if you've never.

to discover the sparkle which tried a fl-Albers, can put in your pictures ter, these are surely good days simply because you fool that tower one." And while there are there' lim't # biter of the right numerous types, you'll and that

your camera. They Jak type:

for

a medium yellow fiber such as come for så types of queries, Kodak Wratten R3 Tfter a And you'll find that Cocy can swidely ryggenmotifed" "for ple- help togeure plnost: Ell-out,

turns of various types Certainly dope shot on line summer days, 11's a good choice for a singin

Pictures by H. V. DREES

A "CASUALTY” (Driver Peter Stewart, of Dundee), is brought back s

to the base camp after being carried across the River Isla by “rescunts."

saki Pettigrow, signalling,"

D.

the supper.

NOT a fishermen trimming his sall, but mountain rescuer Paddy Carolan hauling on a rope of his tent during the blizzard.

THE WOMEN WHO PURSUED SHAW

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GBS: A POSTSCRIPT. By Then there

Hesketh Pearson, Collins, Duncan, the famous dancer, 10s. 6d. 192 pages.

whose face "looked as if it had been made of sugar and some- TOWARDS the end of his one had licked it." Her Ørst

life,

Shaw developed words on meeting Shaw weret. have loved you all my life. something like an obsession

Come," about

money. Believing They at together on the sofa that he was slipping into for an hour and she promised to for him undraped on a poverty, he did everything dance possible to raise cash. He

date agreed, Ho carefully noted did not wish even to keep forgot to keep it..

the appointment, and

the bust of Lady Astor Believing that women visitors (which was duly catalogued would almost inevitably try

love to him, Show

RA a "bust of Mrs Sidney make be heard

would

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to

to whisper anxiously to his secretary wher BOOKS

by ... GEORGE

MALCOLM

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sistent lady ar an ominously in-

rived, "Don't leave me alone."

Among Shaw's bitterest enemies wad the second Mrs

Granville

Barker, whom he solemnly believed

So much ap A WARM SUIT AND

SOMETHING TO EAT

pears from this sprightly book PADDY CAROLAN sures out corned beef fritien FLIGHT LIEUTENANT PETTIGREW (right) and Sergeant

in which Hes- cooked by Driver J. Brown and Driver D. Nicholson, Fergus Nelson, set off for a climb in their Arctic suits,

keth Pearson

and Nicholson

In winter the men wear new pro-

unburdened by an estate car left there for the slopes and the glen below. Brown

RAJ Arctic sults; each man reverience "We use those in night rescue duced bacon and eggs.

but three days by a butcher

and rockets operations

for

carries hard rations and a solid quick with af- who had been up the glen

Soon the heather was almost fuel cooker.

"They of knee-deep in snow, "Scott of

provides not so had bewitched him at a meet- Driver

have learned Nicholson, buying locally shot deer. In

moun- fection, Antarcile had nothing on taineering the hard way, by much were Peebles, and Driver J. Brown, the

new light on Shaw ing in King College, London the back of the car

all the us," said of Aberdeen (nearly

somebody. Sergeant trial and error. None bad bad as a series of brilliant Just after making a speech three dead beasts. "No need

team are Scots) stayed behind Nelson commented:

"People any experience beyond a "bit sidelights. Here is much which annoyed her, he suffered to worry about cold storage**

to cook

Wireless pay guineas for this in Swit of walking in the hills" up here," said an airman.

Ken, Bleasdale, of zerland!"

Lieut. Said Flight operator

The rescuers still find wreck that could not, for one rea- a sudden, inexplicable pain in spine. It Insted. for Nor venison thieves either, Newcastle-on-Tyne ("I'm a bit Fettigrow: "Seriously, if Scott age of acroplanes lost without son or another, be printed the

Antarctic had had the trace The only people who passed nearer home here than when I of tho

in Wiltshire") sat at his equipment wo carry,

doubt it isource. every cently they came across a role in Pearson's biography of exactly a month camp in nearly 24 hours was our

nine years ago.. thing would have been all of 1014-18 war crash. were the butcher and another. Instruments in the radio van.

But B right."

good deal of

For example, the story as deal of their work snowed-up visitor to the lone-

is trying to find lost climbers told by Shaw, of the famous confessed to ly glen, where in 10 miles there

Each man carries about 421b. They have very decided views dust-up in the Fabian secret" which arg fewer houses than in a

On a full-scale search ho is on his back; ali except the about inexperienced people Society. It was due, he said, preyed on his London cul-de-sac.

In contact with headquarters medical officer, Flight Lieut. E. who go mountaineering alone The

moon was rising. over as well as each party's walkie McKay The doc. has nothing in bad weather,

to the fact that the Webbe years. Failing to make any the anow-covered mountains talkie operator. If aircraft co- to carry, so that he can get on

the They work

at closely with warned Bland and Olivier to progress when the first climbs were operate, he can speak to the with any urgent work when police and local ghillies made. The men, who search in' pilots by VHF radio.

we locate a crash," said Fettl have been formed threes, one carrying walkie-

grew. "We carry enough equip- units. "Their local knowledge talkie-redio, scrambled through the thick snow. From the top

out minor operations on the hope they fired flares which lit up

The men slept in tenta, By morning the blizzard bad starled, and the 26 of us crowd- ed round the stove while

spot."

KTÓW.

He did not

When he was over 90, Shaw "shameful he said ha mind for 80....

his

Methodist

who keep their daughters away school he attended in Dublin, into sub from H. G. Wells who would he was sent to a Roman Catholic ment for the doctor to carry is far more than we could ever certainly try to seduce them, school. Instantly he lost caste

to achieve,"

young Protestant said Petti- When Bland mentioned this among

warning to his daughter, the friends and, after a few months,.- Mountain Rescue men get girl told him that Wells had went on strike until he was no extra pay, Their one

described him as a fearful roue, sent back among Protestants. Shaw

declares that Bland was, consolation is that they ein fact, an incorrigible-Pearson thinks that, in tum... cape rutine fatigues at the polygamist."

ing this story into a "confes- airfield.

emotional life alon," Shaw Was simply moved outside the Arcadian making the dramatic most of nmbit at the

Incident he had just re

ONCE A WEEK, the Marstals Reseve, teció-all volunteers-stop prutyday'weck and go out our evernight mountain

Before leaving headquarties œt Edzell the commander briefs them on the area to be searched."

axaccisa.

THE BASE CAMP ́in”Glam Fula daring the blizzard. Non-climbing members of the team shelter from the snor

under a turpaulia stretched between the lorry and the ambulanca.

MAYE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT--

THIS

∙AS YOU WALKED ALONG A ROAD YOU SAW A KAST

HEAD THAT ROSE FROM THE ROAD BEFORE YOU --

DREAM MEANS:

"An unusual dream,

plan has occurred to your an idea, a really big ideas-symbolised by the rising hand which looke

the road you are to:tuka.

Shaw's

own

H

early Socialists. ered. He was not above

Sergeant Nelson and Pad-

Ho

offensive

had to fight off a strong Mrs Patrick Camp- by

the truth; he would

dy Carolan have been out bell, who repeatedly tried to alter his private Jeties before prevent him going home to his allowing them to be quoted in on all the

team's expedi-wife. "One of our fights did other people's books. He call tions since it was formed actually and with both of us on ed it "bringing the facts up two years ago. So has SAC the floor fighting like mad"

· date."

John Maxwell Sharpe, of

Bannockburn, navigator of A British Crossword Puzzle

one of the search parties of three. (His job at the air- fleld in engine mechanic)

One of

In about a dozen emergency calls to air crashes and. Iost climbers, the team have found all the victims

dead. the most recent jobs they had to da, was to search for a civil aeroplane which crashed on fla way to Aberdeen Airport. They found the burned-out" wreckage on a mountainside, both oc- cupants killed. The RAF men carried the bodies down on Stretchers.

for a

Amore pleasant job was the equipment taking radio station to the top of Ben Nevis (44008.), Britain's highest mountain, for experi- ments by the. Ministry of Civil Aviation,

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