Adventuremark – Adventure Activities Association Ltd (BMG/UIAGM/IFMGA) aka AALA
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Safety Rope merely clipped into the front of the harness: Apparently, the new adventure gold standard in outdoor pursuits is – Adventuremark. Interstingly, an example of the ‘high standard’ of participation in the organisation is shown to potential clients in one of its adverting pictures. At the proposed abolishing of the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority (difficult to see the difference between AALA and Adventuremark) under who’s guidance, avoidable, accidents in outdoor pursuits continued to happen, attention is now directed at – Adventuremark. http://www.adventuremark.co.uk/ In the adverting picture, a young girl is being lowered down a rock wall near a lake, her safety rope is merely clipped to the front of her harness via a karabiner (they test one in a batch). It is common knowledge, or should be, that the safety rope should be tied through the main sit-harness as per the manufactures instructions – and not merely to the front of the harness via a karabiner. The girl, the client, is totally oblivious to the danger that she could be in. Similar shoddy instruction is the very reason that the AALA was originally set-up after the Lyme Bay Disaster in 1993 when four young canoeists avoidably drowned.
The Supervisor of Adventuremark: Is the Adventure Activities Association Ltd: The Directors of which are -BMG/ UIAGM / IFMGA. http://www.adventureactivityassociates.co.uk/aboutus-detail.php?id=1 The gold-standard of the re-placement for the AALA already established… The safety record when it comes to BMG/ UIAGM/IFMGA clients are well and truely covered in this web-site and elsewhere on the Internet. Whilst the instructors, with the desired qualities and vast experience who lost there jobs (approximately 600 since 1996) in outdoor pursuits will not benefit from this new arrangement, BMG and AMI instructors will continue to flourish – regardless of accidents to clients. Langmuir: ‘It is not intended that those instructors with the desired qualities and experience etc., should be denied employment in outdoor pursuits…’ Apparently, nothing is going to change.
Potential clients beware. Me, with all of my experience – I am not qualified to comment. http://www.adventureactivityassociates.co.uk/accreditation/scheme-approval.php
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