Winter skills 2.8: making a snow bollard and using it to make an abseil

How to abseil from a snow bollard when out in the winter hills. Whether you make it to the summit or you reach a point where you have to retreat, you may be unable to find a suitable rock belay to abseil from. In this short film a professional AMI Mountaineering Instructor shows you how to make a snow bollard and safely abseil off it. This is one of a series of instructional films produced exclusively for BMC TV in association with AMI (the Association of Mountaineering Instructors), Lowe Alpine and DMM. WATCH: 32 winter skills films in our playlist: #iceclimbing #mountaineering We’re the BMC. Climb walls, rocks, hills, ice or mountains? Join us.