🏔️ Navigation & first aid for the hills

Build your own mountain cards

A growing set of field cards for the hills — navigation tools for pacing, timing and slope angle, plus first-aid prompts for surveys, handovers and emergency calls. Personalise any of them and download to print or keep on your phone.

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Mountain Pacing Chart

Calibrate your personal walking pace across seven gradients, then generate a chart of your double-pace counts per 100 m.

Create pacing chart →⏱️

Mountain Timing Card

Build a timing card showing how long each leg takes at your chosen speeds, with climb, descent and condition adjustments.

Create timing card →📐

Slope Angle Tool

Print an exact-scale card that reads slope angle straight off the map contours — for route choice and avalanche awareness.

Create slope tool →🌦️

Mountain Weather Basics

Rules of thumb for the hills: temperature, wind, wind chill, cloud, the signs it is turning and what to check before you go.

Create weather card →🧭

Navigation Reminders

A fine-navigation toolkit: bearings, timing, catching features, attack points, handrails, escape routes and backstops.

Create reminders card →➕

Primary Survey (DR ABCDE)

The first life-saving check: Danger, Response, Catastrophic bleeding, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure.

Create primary survey →🚑

ATMIST Handover Card

A first-aid prompt for handing a casualty to the emergency services: Age & name, Time, Mechanism, Injuries, Signs, Treatment.

Create handover card →🩹

Secondary Survey (SAMPLE)

A first-aid history prompt: Signs & symptoms, Allergies, Medication, Past history, Last oral intake and Events.

Create survey card →🧠

AVPU Response Scale

A quick level-of-consciousness check: Alert, responds to Voice, responds to Pain, or Unresponsive.

Create AVPU card →📞

ETHANE Emergency Report

What to tell the emergency services: Exact location, Type, Hazards, Access, Number of casualties, Emergency services.

Create ETHANE card →🥶

Hypothermia

Recognise and treat hypothermia in the hills — the "-umbles" early signs, plus shelter, dry layers and gradual rewarming.

Create hypothermia card →🥵

Hyperthermia

Heat illness in the hills: heat exhaustion signs and treatment, and the heatstroke danger signs that mean call 999.

Create hyperthermia card →

Please give something back

Use of these tools is offered on the condition that you make a donation to Severn Area Rescue Association, the volunteer search & rescue charity. If your cards help you in the outdoors, please support the crews who help others.

Donate to SARA →