In reply to Willi Crater:
hopefully it reinforces the point about wearing helmets.
> Oh f*ck off, condescending tw*t. No offence. OK - lots of offence.
> Or to put it another way, if you are so risk adverse then maybe you should consider another hobby (maybe tiddlywinks).
You're a 50 year old man and this is the best contribution to the thread you can make?
The girl hit her head on the ground and the helmet took much of the impact. That possibly saved her life, or maybe kept her out of a wheelchair with a brain injury. I have no idea how my suggestion about the wearing helmets message is condescending - it seems pretty obvious.
If you’d like an example of me being condescending, I’m happy to oblige. I'm on my “lunch” break, during an ambulance night shift in Manchester so I’ll be direct because I don’t have much time. Try not to choke on your dry Martini whilst reading, big boy.
You boast about being drunk which is tragic. You call me risk averse yet I’ve soloed E5, I onsight E4 and every year I put up new routes in places like the Sinai desert, The Sudan, Ethiopia and the Philippines. You've been climbing for over 20 years, you state in your profile that “rest days are for wimps” yet your best onsight is HVS – now who’s risk averse? The absolute saddest thing about your response is that you don’t take even a second of your time to wish her a speedy recovery.
You’ve really made it in life, and your Horlicks inventing grandfather would be proud of you. Now *that’s* what I call condescending.
Toodle pip!