Mountain Clients

Was the title of the unsolicited e-mail received from Tim Howard at 14:36 on the 23 February, 2004: ´You aver, without advanced argument or evidence, that all the incidents referred to on your web page ¨Are the Guides to blame?¨ were ´avoidable´ even though, in some cases, properly constituted public inquiries came to the opposite conclusion.

The suggestion on your homepage that you ¨surrender responsibility¨ to a guide whose services you hire is simply daft (Reinhold Messner´s words in fact – not mine so Reinhold must be daft in Tim Howards, myopic, observation) I have no idea (correct) what sense of injustice or inadequacy drives you to publish such rubbish but suggest that you take the site down before people start laughing at you.´ If publishing rubbish were a criteria for – taking down a website, both the BMC and BMG website´s would have disappeared long ago. Tim (What Sort of F*****g Idiot Are You) Howard of course, must agree totally (if the idiot has half-a-brain) with the recent:  ‘properly constituted public – Hutton Inquiry’ even though, the vast majority of the British public know it was a government white-wash (including the powerful magazine – Private Eye). Having sampled the calibre of Tim Howards language/vocabulary thus far (probably due to too much drink) it is quite obvious that any attempt at ¨advancing an argument¨ with the likes of him, would be totally pointless anyway… On January, 14, 2010 a UIAGM guide died alongside (unusually) his two clients in an avalanche in France – there was a substantial avalanche warning posted at the time – only a f****** idiot would have taken his clients out in such conditions though Howard, no doubt, would disagree…

Howard no doubt, will agree with Jon de Montjoye (UIAGM) who actually believes that someone (me) who thinks that loosing clients is ‘not OK’ is: “Completely barking and must have a HUGE chip on their shoulder.” Mountain clients should be wary of guides of have such views.

‘Properly Constituted Public Inquiry’: David and Jennie were not allowed to be present at their son’s (BMG/UIAGM) client killed in 1990 – Inquiry: ‘Properly Constituted Public Inquiry’, behind – closed doors.