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		<title>A Triumph for Common Sense?!</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2010/05/a-triumph-for-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;A Triumph for Common Sense&#8217; was the heading of an article by Stephen Venables in Mountain Notes, High Magazine, March, 1996: &#8216;Three times in my life I have broken bones. On each occasion the accident was caused by an anchor falling (failing). Two of these anchors were placed by me &#8211; one when I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vixen Tor Inquiry (16 Jan 2006)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/vixen-tor-inquiry-16-jan-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 24th February, 2005, the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) lost, its attempt at gaining access to the private land on which stands Vixen Tor (the situation remains unresolved until, the BMC gets it&#8217;s way) a small granite outcrop on the edge of Dartmoor. Access to Vixen Tor, a non descript piece of moorland granite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guiding Blight&#8230; (12 Oct 2003)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guiding Blight:  Was the title of a &#8216;letter&#8217; published in the Daily Mail the 29 September, 2003 a school teacher, Paul Ellis who apparently ignored bad weather warnings has been sent to prison for a year (Daily Mail 26/09/03) and has lost his teaching career because a pupil deliberately dived into a swollen river &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alpine Mountaineering Pay-up (26 Sep 2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/alpine-mountaineering-pay-up-26-sep-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of Michael Matthews, 22, who in 1999 became the youngest Briton to climb Everest has finally been awarded £70,000 damages for his death (they had waited four years due to a wall-of-silence) while using faulty oxygen equipment during the descent. Alpine Mountaineering (IGO 8000), the expedition organiser, its director, Jonathan Tinker, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UIAGM guide in court over 11 deaths (26 May 2003)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So wrote The Guardian on the 14 January, 2000: &#8216;A French court gave a mountain guide a &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everest Circus Spins Out of Control (18 Apr 2003)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the website http://www.mounteverest.net/news/newspages/todd1040103.htm&#160; Mount Everest News, on the 4 April, 2003: ´´Everest&#8217;s most dangerous person, Henry Todd.&#8217;, Mountain guide and member of IGO 8000. Mount Everest News went on: &#8216;A spokesperson for IGO 8000 (the organisation at the cutting edge of Himalayan professionalism and safety) recently stated to ExplorersWeb: &#34;Henry Todd left IGO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Launches Lawsuit Over Everest Death (23 Jan 2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday Times, June 2, 2002: &#8216;The family of the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest is suing the firm that organised the climb, claiming that he died during his descent through the companies negligence. Michael Matthews, 22, reached the top of the 29,028ft peak in May, 1999, but disappeared while making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Triumph for Common Sense? http://www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk/pitch-in/helmets.html &#8216;A Triumph for Common Sense&#8217;, so wrote Steven Venables in a specialist magazine after Peter Pope, a client of the Asscoiation of British Mountain Guides (BMG), specifically, David (cubby) Cuthbertson, was allowed to place all of his own protection during a rock climb. In the unsuing fall, Peter Pope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope v Cuthbertson</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/pope-v-cuthbertson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this case Judge Diana Cotton QC dismissed all negligence claims against British Mountain Guide David &#8216;Cubby&#8217; Cuthbertson. &#8220;A civil case in the High Court (1994) has established an important precedent relating to climbers and responsibility, duty of care and liability&#8221;. So read the headlines after the decision in Pope v Cuthbertson. This came at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tour Ronde &#8211; Hedley v Cuthbertson</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/tour-ronde-hedley-v-cuthbertson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedley v Cuthbertson &#8211; North Face of the Tour Ronde, July 1990 On June 20 1997, a Judge found against (BMG) guide Dave &#8216;Smiler&#8217; Cuthbertson in a negligence case brought against him by six year old Daniel Woodroofe Hedley. The case concerned an accident on the North face of the Tour Ronde in July 1990. [...]]]></description>
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