The Inuit people of Northern Canada and Greenland are probably the first people who come to mind when we think of snow saws and igloos; not students on a winter course at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland’s national outdoor centre. The Inuit made their saws/ knives out of whale and caribou bone with notches cut out for teeth. We are told these metal ones were made in Norway, used by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and, as we can see by the cover, Glenmore Lodge in the 1960/70’s. Students would use them to make igloos and snowholes as part of their survival training in case of emergency. Not sure why, but Glenmore Lodge stopped using this type of saw in the 1980’s and we managed to salvage this one.