ACCIDENT REPORTS AT UKCLIMBING.COM
On 08 May 2008 we ran
Please don’t tell my Mum by Mike 'Twid Turner (
http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=974 ) and followed that up with
Accident Report Articles - A REQUEST (
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=301520 )
Since then we have received several accident reports, some recent and some from several years ago, which we shall be running at UKClimbing.com periodically.
This is, as far as we know, a new step for the climbing media in the UK. The purpose is clear. The more knowledge we have about what can go wrong whilst climbing the greater chance that accidents can be avoided or prevented. Accidents happen to experienced climbers and the less experienced alike, no one is immune.
It is a delicate issue and we are sensitive to those who are involved in accidents. The purpose is not to point fingers or to ridicule but to learn and to help make all of us focus on what can go wrong.
Jack and myself had already made an editorial decision to run this story about this accident at Millstone last Saturday. We thought it important to focus on how unreliable old insitu gear can be. Phil Robin's has done a very credible synopsis of the events last Saturday and how such accidents can be avoided at the start of this thread.
We also ran Phil's words on the news page as not everyone reads the forums.
A REQUEST: When we run articles and discussions like this please refrain from making inappropriate comments and going off at a tangent. Yes we have already deleted several comments on this thread and also deleted new forum threads about it. We do not mind critical comments about whether we should run accident reports.
Thanks,
Mick