Chance, Risk and Expert Accidents
Friday, November 4th, 2011
http://www.sais.gov.uk/about.asp Avalanche Expert: checking conditions below a huge Scottish Cornice – helmet safely tucked away.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Paramedic+left+paralysed+after+climbing+accident.-a0139019387
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Adventure+centre+boss+relieved+at+not+guilty+verdict.-a0139130065 Client paralised for life…
The organisation that supports the none wearing of protective head gear; safety helmets (now sponsored by probably the worse, Mammut, climbing rope (s) ever produced), is to collate (avoidable) climbing accidents. http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=1099
The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) is apparently http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mix-up+that+left+a+climber+paralysed%3B+Wrong+people+let+go+on…-a0131927735 part of a new initiative – to collate climbing accidents. The wearing of helmets would, at a stroke, reduce the number of on average, 60 climbers a years killed or injured in avoidable UK climbing accidents. Chance, risk and accidents supports a picture (Internet connection above) shows an individual sat amongst fallen rocks of various sizes whilst his helmet sits safely in his rucksack (if he has a helmet). The none wearing of safety helmets and the practice of falling off rockfaces is condoned by the BMC (via so-called sports climbing). Flooding the UK climbing scene against the wishes of the vast majority of UK climbers with 10,000 expansion bolts in 2007 has not stopped accidents, fatal or otherwise. That fact that fatal accidents are happening on indoor climbing walls – beggars belief (helmets not mandatory – of course). To say nothing of pushing; advertising Mammut ropes which when used together as double half-ropes act like copulating vipers warping around each other thus increasing the risk of an accident.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=487230 To say nothing of showing incorrect belaying practice (2012) to the general public.
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