In reply to UKC Articles:
"Is it time to take stock, at all levels of our sport, from walking up Snowdon to speed soloing the north face of the Grandes Jorasses? To walk before we can run? To make time to build the basic skills that one day, without us even knowing, might save our lives."
Then from Dave Musgrove:
"still climbing E2, and F6c on bolts and indoor walls. I am not sure which way he'd gone up but he was fully equipped with axe and crampons He had over 50 years of mountain experience."
I think it's obvious that Mr Middleton knew very well how to run. These accidents happen to the most experienced and well informed from time to time and always will.
There is, I suggest, no correlation atall between these recent incidents and a proposed loss of respect for the mountain environment.