UIAGM guide in court over 11 deaths (26 May 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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.’
Category : Court Cases
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