Mountain Clients

On the 13 Sept, 2002, Lynda Woodroffe wrote in responce to my answering e-mail: “You did not cause me discomfort at all – please do not aòlogise. Any discomfort is due to the loss and the cause of it. I am very pleased (as I said) to have found your website.

Please feel free to use the information – I have written an unpublished book about climbing/the whole scenario surrounding Gerry,s death and have all the details of the court-case, expert opinions etc. There were some suspicious goings on, I have to say, which are revealed in the book. I have not edited it yet – as I wrote it some time ago and was rushing it a bit after the court-case. It brought out a very useful catharsis.”

In responce to my comment: ´It was the extremely long time 1990-1997 (between the accident and the court-case) that intrigued me´, that Lynda responded: ´We were insured by the BMC as was Smiler Cuthbertson. I knew that something had happened to cause the fall and wanted the police report. I, we, my friends, a French friend and my solicitor wrote to/rang up the Chamonix police but could not get the police to send the report. So we did not have a leg to stand on.’

I had 3 years to make a case against the (BMG) guide (according to the insurance and legal rules). I had Daniel 8 months after Gerry was killed, so things were put on the back burner. Some political friends suggested to me that I press on with the case and told me to get my MP to get the police report out of France. He called the Foreign Office and they had 3 attempts to get the report. On, the third attempt, it arrived – this made it 3 years and about 3weeks after the accident!!! Is that suspicious or what????´ The time was extended deliberately – I believe…