We'd known about the storm for days, so how come hundreds of trekkers were caught off guard?
Hallu wrote:You're right, but after all it is also the lack of strict rules in Nepal that led to this. As you say, many unfit and unprepared people go there, and it shouldn't be possible. In the end that's probably what will happen. Nepalese rangers that will have to check if hikers paid the fee and were rightly checked to see if they were fit to undertake that journey. This disaster has been global news, the Nepalese tourism industry is gonna take a hit, so the government has to respond.
walkon wrote:I think most people are missing the point who think Nepal gov should tighten rules. People need to take more responsibility and care of themselves. The more that responsibility is abrogated, the more of this we can expect.
wayno wrote:same thing happened when a young lady drowned on the milford track last autumn... the survivors of the group blamed authorities for not warning them bridges were removed and the streams could be dangerous.. they werent cut off they could have easily gone back the way they came to shelters or a hut but they said they "couldnt go back the four hours to the hut" and waiting for the water to go down was never given as an option... the only option they thought they had was to cross a flooded stream that was far harder than anything they'd done or were trained for... and it was everyone elses fault.
not sure if its a growing trend, my car was written off by a driver who T boned me, he had failed to give way. there were five young men in the car and they all blamed me... despite them having crossed a give way mark on the road. the driver never admitted fault and wrote a letter repeating i was entirely at fault...
young israeli lady wandered well off the routeburn track in NZ. slipped and fell and died... her family wanted to blame DOC. but there was no evidence doc had told her about a vague track in the area where she was.. i've read comments by people who were some of the last to see her alive, they could see she was ill equipped and were trying to give her advice and she didnt want to listen, they had commented among themselves she was an accident waiting to happen, there are an awful lot of people out there who cant and or don't take responsibility for their actions... and are out of their depth in the wilderness..
a lot of peole are like sheep out there, it's the blind leading the blind
under10kg wrote:Climate change is causing changes to the usual weather patterns.
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