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Offline SteveH

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Re: Unthinking Tourists
« Reply #45 on: November 26, 2024, 10:30:22 am »
'Fine the culprits' Mountain Rescue left stunned by ill-equipped walkers in -9C temperatures

The climbers were left open-mouthed by the ill-equipped walkers who went up Eryri's mountains in -9C temperatures - one party went astray because it followed a mobile phone "heat map trail" thinking it was a footpath

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/fine-culprits-mountain-rescue-left-30446031

Offline SteveH

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Re: Unthinking Tourists
« Reply #46 on: December 04, 2024, 10:38:06 am »
A mountain rescue team has pleaded with social media influencers to take greater responsibility when posting photos of dangerous climbs in Eryri (Snowdonia). In turn, the Llanberis outfit came under fire for posting its own video of a rescue from Yr Wyddfa’s notorious Crib Goch knife-edge ridge.

Largely, climbers and walker applauded the over-worked team for highlighting the way some influencers glamorise a location without fully accounting for the risks. At the same time, some fear that blaming influencers may absolve people of their responsibility to go into the mountains fully equipped and properly prepared....................https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/influencers-issued-warning-casualty-walked-30493302?IYA-reg=49560bcd-5a9c-47f0-8fc5-ba2e71710589


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Re: Unthinking Tourists
« Reply #47 on: December 04, 2024, 11:59:48 am »
The main problem with web sites about climbing is that they're read largely inside warm, cosy houses, which detracts from their inherent dangers.  Crib Goch is a good example of showing something that is far from safe for inexperienced walkers and can present serious risks, even to the experienced.

In effect it's walking the rim of an ancient caldera (last active around half a billion years ago, so relatively safe, now  ;)) but successive ice ages have revealed the shapes and depths of the geological upheavals.

It's staggeringly beautiful from the Southern rim on a nice day, but you have to take care even so, and it's not a walk to take on a blowy day.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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