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   <li>When walking on the plateau, turn on <b>location tracking</b> in Google Maps, or your GPS app, before you leave the car park and share your location with someone you know at base camp and/or top camp.</li>
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 <p><b>Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity</b> of the  tracks. The plateau is very broken and is an unremitting extent of cliffs, holes and impassable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo). You can be 5m from the route and have lost it entirely. The <a href="/guidebook/walkin.htm">walk to and from</a> 
-  col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy is it is an obvious path, and marked and signposted in the earlier section.</p>
+  the col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy as it is an obvious path, and is marked and signposted in the earlier section.</p>
   <a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/"><img width=60% src="gps-essentials/essentials2024divert.jpg" alt="screenshot of the GPS file"></a>
 <h3>Quick start for Android devices, 2024</h3>
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