by wayno » Sat 03 Jan, 2015 11:47 am
some tourists just throw caution out the window, they believe some places are a paradise to go to and throw caution out the window and you cant tell them otherwise, see it in NZ all the time, people head off into the mountains with little awareness of how to assess the risks or that there are even any major risks, they stop taking safety precautions, leave everything unlocked, dont use caution about who they associate with, act like theres no dangers in the wilderness, they are in dreamland they've watched or read some fantastical account of NZ that accentuates the positive and eliminates the negative.. what could possibly go wrong? well theres helicopter rescues going on every other day in the mountains at the moment... sometimes several a day.... five alone recently at Mt Cook national park...
from the land of the long white clouds...