Mountain Clients

So wrote The Guardian on the 14 January, 2000: ‘A French court gave a mountain guide a – suspended two-years  prison sentence yesterday over the deaths in an avalanche of nine French teenagers and two adults during an excursion in 1998. Daniel Forte, 44, led the party across a steep slope near the ski resort of Les Orres despite warnings of high avalanche risks after a heavy snowfall.

After the Lyme Bay Canoeing Disaster in which four peope died,  the Canoe Center’s manager (he was not even at the scene of the accident) was given a two year jail sentence…  

Three other people were acquitted after the Les Orres disaster.’ Today (2008) the UIAGM/IFMGA website still boasts: ‘Their badge; logo, recognised throughout the world is your guarantee of their professional training and competence in all aspects of mountaineering and client care.’