Mountain Clients

On the 27 June, 2002, I received an email from Graham McMahon MIC/ BMG, a recently qualified (an aspirant guide according to the BMG website – 20/06/2003) UIAGM guide in response to the Frequently Asked Questions page: ‘As a Plas y Brenin instructor (who is doing quite nicely from the £450,000 per annum being pumped into PyB by the Government to sustain the centre on the open market – otherwise it would fail) and recently qualified  UIAGM guide I found your description of the guiding profession rather misleading. I can only assume you have had some terribly bad luck (I know parents of dead BMG clients who certainly have) with your contacts within guiding or you are a sad old man with a chip on his shoulder.’ Which is far better than being a ’sad climber’ who actually believes; that his association is competent in  – all aspects of clients care when it blatently isn’t.

A sad old man, for wanting the avoidable deaths to BMG clients due to basic errors by BMG guides (who almost to a man have survived) to stop.!  Certainly, there are a growing number of ’sad old men and women’ parents (who have lost a son or daughter, clients of BMG guides who have many unanswered questions to put to the likes of Graham McMahon) who are reaching old age having lost not only a child, but the prospects of any grand children to an organisation that still advertises that its members are – competent in all aspects of client care.?

That the above attitude towards the relatives of lost BMG clients, still prevails, (in the year 2002) beggars belief.  If there are any – sad men (and I include Mr McMahon), it is those BMG guides who to date (2003) have still refused, are still refusing, to acknowledge; appologise for their actions and attitude to mountain clients and their parents…