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healyje
Jul 12, 2011, 7:21 PM
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rescueman wrote: "Accidents are also caused by simple overconfidence; climbers think they know more than they actually do and suddenly find themselves in a dangerous situation with no idea of what to do."
Here you confuse incompetence and Darwinian selection for competence and quite mistakenly assume from that confusion that it's not possible to challenge your limits on trad gear. A very, very bad assumption indeed.
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rescueman wrote: My assessment about the increase in climbing accidents came from discussions with rescue rangers and climbing guides.
Rescue rangers and guides by themselves are in no way a remotely definitive source of opinions on that particular matter. If anything, I would say in today's demographics that guides and 'guiding' are part of the problem - not the solution; and SAR, outside of a couple of select locales such as Denali, Yosemite, and Longs Peak are seldom people I would consider as holding 'authoritative' opinions or judgments about any aspect of climbing.
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