Walking in the United Kingdom the scrambling suddenly becomes much more serious. In Britain, the term "mountaineering" tends to be reserved for technical climbing on mountains, or for serious domestic hillwalking, especially in winter, with additional equipment such as ice axe and crampons, or for routes requiring rock-climbing skills and a rope, such as the traverse of the Cuillin ridge, on the Scottish island of Skye. The British Mountaineering Council provides more information on this topic. Navigation and map-reading are essential hillwalking skills on high ground and mountains, due to the variability of British and Irish weather and the risk of rain, low cloud, fog
On the Hills of Manchuria Russian land, Dear sons of the Fatherland. Dear mother is shedding tears, The young wife is weeping, All like one are crying, Cursing fate, cursing destiny! You fell for Russia, perished for Fatherland, Believe us, we shall avenge you And celebrate a bloody wake!</poem> On the Hills of Manchuria "On the Hills of Manchuria" () is a haunting waltz composed in 1906 by Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. The original and orchestral arrangement is written in E-flat minor while the folk arrangement is in F minor. The original title of the waltz was "The Mokshansky Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" and