Mountain Clients

2 May, 2010: UIAGM/IFMGA mountain guide Marco Da Pozzo was killed after falling from the church steeple in the chic ski resort of Cortina D’Ampezzo in the Dolomits of Northern Italy during a routine maintenance operation http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7639306/Italian-mountaineer-dies-falling-off-church-steeple.html This fatality comes not long after the then, President of the UIAGM Claude Rey, fell off a hut ladder (some reports say into a crevasse – unroped) and was killed.

Wholesale advertising by the British Mountaineering Council along with the Sports Council’s able assistance – Sport for All – enticing young people into climbing – the quick way, is one of the main reasons for the increase in climbing participation and therefore, the increase in fatal climbing accidents – 2007 appears to be one of the worst Scottish winter mountaineering tragedies – in the making: ‘The question has just been asked on rockfax (23 January 2007) – do older climbers believe that there are more climbing accidents now?’ Yes there certainly are – due to the above mentioned points – too much enticement.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=373428   BMG clients deaths to be taken with: ‘a pinch of salt’ (liz Sept, 2009)

http://www.chamonix.net/english/news/2009-08-13.htm At least, 11 UIAGM guides have died since Nov, 2008, there is no information regading the fate of their clients.