Comments for Mountain Clients

Comment on PyB - A Pig in a Government Poke or, the Mountain Trough. by denzuki

denzuki — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:33:46 +0000

The BMC (Plas y Brenin, Capel Curig)wasting money on 1300 bolts to be used in damaging Welsh climbing areas, will not go down well with other Welsh organisations, struggling to find money during the current, financial crisis,(13 May, 2009).

Comment on PyB - A Pig in a Government Poke or, the Mountain Trough. by Bodin

Bodin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:26:35 +0000

As the recession continues to bite, the North Wales Tourist Board must be struggling to make ends meet. On the other hand, the Outdoor Pursuits Center, Plas y Brenin in Capel Curig appears to be riding the economic down turn very well having just refurbished its lavish, 16 bed bunkhouse…

It is to hoped that the centers lavish new conference hall will likewise be ready for the November 2009 Expedition Symposium to which, the tickets will still cost you £100.

Comment on Chance, Risk and Accidents in 2008/09 by Bodin

Bodin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:54:20 +0000

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=1189513

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/907-four-killed-in-avalanche-valmeinier both websites tell a sorry tale; a lesson in ‘Chance, Risk and Accidents’ continuing into 2009.

Comment on No Protection from Ineptitude by denzuki

denzuki — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:58:49 +0000

On the 11 March, 2009, eight clients and their ‘qualified guide’ were avalanched in the French Alps by a kilometer wide wall of snow and ice. Three of the clients and their guide, died.

Comment on Six Swiss Soldiers Killed Avalanched (15 May 2008) by denzuki

denzuki — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:53:39 +0000

On the 11 March, 2009, eight clients and their qualified UIAGM / IFMGA mountain guide, were caught in a kilometer wide avalanche in the French Alps, three of the clients and the guide, died.

Comment on No Protection from Ineptitude by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:45 +0000

Britsh Mountaineering Council ‘Safety Campaign’ 2008 style: http://www.thebmc.co.uk/Pages.aspx?page=191 shows quite clearly that whilst it is necessary for ‘cartoon characters’ to wear a ’safety helmet’ whilst climbing / abseiling, real climbers - need not.

Comment on Sports Climbers Bring Climbing into Disrepute (7 Nov 2005) by denzuki

denzuki — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:32:28 +0000

The introducion of 10,000 ‘free bolts’ by the British Mountaineering Counil in 2007 thus flooding the UK climbing scene, against the wishes of the vast majority of the UK’s ‘real’climbers, flies in the face of Tarmac’s attempts at removing bolts from UK climbing.

Comment on Alpine Mountaineering Pay-up (26 Sep 2003) by denzuki

denzuki — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:24:34 +0000

David Matthews ‘private criminal prosecution’ failed in 2007 when ‘just one man’ thought it not unusual that many people; climbers should complain about the oxygen equipment that they had hired should fail; oxygen equipment that had been illegaly de-canted in India. The Judge, whilst sympathetic, thought it not unusual…

Comment on Chance, Risk and Accidents in 2008/09 by Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:06:36 +0000

I watched with intepidation today a Youtube video of a group crossing a snowed-up Grand Couloir on the Normal Route to Mont Blanc. I cringed as they had their ’safety rope’ attached to a supposed ’safety cable’ that has been strung out across the Couloir for many years now. As they proceeded to cross, their safety rope is pulled away from them as the hang of the cable is too far out from the couloirs surface. Having seen too many ‘epics’ at this spot and watched many antics surrounds this ’safety cable’ I have never personally attached to it. Climbers have been bounced off the tiny; sometimes icy path at this spot once the heavy cable started to ‘bounce’ along its length

Comment on Chance, Risk and Accidents in 2008/09 by Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:23:25 +0000

On the 17 June, 2008 an Independent, Chamonix guide was killed when he and his two lients were avalanched down the Gouter Coulior on the Normal Route on Mont Blanc:
http://chamonet.com/whats_new_article.php?id_whats_new=3548