Matthew Davies, a partner at Hill Dickinson in Liverpool, got in touch after receiving a text message from a client stuck in a blizzard 4,000 metres up Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in the Caucasus (and, indeed, Europe). His client wanted legal advice after an expedition member was injured: what were the implications of allowing the injured man’s 17-year-old son to make a bid for the summit? Davies, a specialist in advising on expedition and travel matters and himself an intrepid adventurer, says: ‘You get used to receiving urgent and unusual calls from clients in this sector at any time of the day or night. And while this wasn’t the most unusual emergency request and certainly not the most serious that I have received, it is definitely the highest.’ Can anyone beat that?