WATCH: Just how thick is ice at Highland beauty spot Loch Morlich?

See for yourself, in today's demonstration from Loch Morlich Watersports' Keith Taylor.

The answer, it seems, is simply to walk out a way and work out a way – with a power drill.

Keith also give the safety drill for anyone out there with the same sense of curiosity: don't always assume that you're just going to sink to your knees if the ice gives way...

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