Russ Hore, SARLOC

Outdoor Lives by Mike Raine

Russ is a climber and mountaineer who was a member of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team for twenty years serving as chairman for two years before retiring from the team. He’s climbed in the Scottish winter and the Alps as well as the greater ranges of Greenland, Alaska and Patagonia.

He says that whilst sitting in a hotel room once, playing with geo-location code ( as you do) he came up with a germ of an idea that became SARLOC. SARLOC is a technology which has been adapted by search and rescue teams around the World and is a standard part of UK practice, listen in and find out more ……