Another, avalanche accident on Anoch Mor (10 Jan 2005)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | No Comments »On the 29 December, 2004, exactly six years to the day (when Scotland's full-time mountain safety officer Roger Wild 'lost' four clients), another avalanche accident occured on Anoch Mor. The local rescue team and a helicopter were called out to ...
New Scottish Mountain ‘Safety’ Adviser Appointed (26 Jan 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | No Comments »According to The Scottish Mountaineer magazine (May, 2002) on page 28 'Safety & Training': 'The MCofS is pleased to announce that Roger Wild (a British Mountain Guide competent in all aspects of client care) has been appointed as the new ...
Scouts – Criticised for Cavalier Attitude.? (10 May 2002)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | No Comments »The Scouts Association has been criticised by members of the Association of British Mountain Guides (BMG). The BMG, an association that has 'lost' numerous clients in avoidable accidents has had the audacity to criticise the Scouts about their - safety ...
Fateful Scottish Avalanches
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | Comments OffAvoidable Deaths, Under Scottish Avalanches Exactly ten years after the boastful BMG letter published in a specialist magazine in 1988: 'We are very concerned about bogus mountain guides offering an inferior and certainly a - dangerous service to members of the ...
Avalanche 2
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | No Comments »Andre Roch: 'Whoever exposes himself and his client to the dangers of an avalanche...is very stupid indeed.' But No One is to be Blamed. Serious soul-searching is going on amongst montaineers (well, the establishment anyway) after the tragic (another) avalanche in ...
A Chance In A Million
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | Comments OffAvalanche Avoidance, brings a whole new meaning to the statement - A Chance in a Million. 'Glenmore Lodge (BMG) and Plas-y-Brenin (BMG) are: Pillars of Learning...'?? Bill Wright (High magazine). Or as one magazine put it: 'PyB - A Pig ...
Four Venture Scouts killed in Avalanche (29 Sept 2001)
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | No Comments »On the 30 December 1998, most major newspapers carried the story of six Scouts, clients of the BMG, being taken into avalanche conditions against posted avalanche warning's. In the ensuing avalanche, four of the venture Scouts; mountain clients were killed; ...
Avalanche
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Avalanche | Comments OffWhoever exposes himself and his client to the dangers of an avalanche ... is very stupid indeed "Serious soul-searching is going on amongst mountaineers after the tragic avalanche in Scotland on the 28 December, 1998." Weekend Telegraph, March 20 1999. Since the ...