Recommended by the Mountain Leader Training Board as an essential item to be carried in the hills. The international distress signal is 6 blasts of a whistle.
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Always have a whistle with you when you go out on the hills.
If you get stuck, you can alert people with the internationally recognised "help required" signal of 6 blasts of a whistle in quick succession, repeated after a one minute interval.