Posts criticizing an influencer for mountaineering without checking the weather forecast, saying "Didn't check the forecast" and calling them a "useless dickhead," noting the action endangered a rescue/MR team and hoping they made a donation; one post praises the influencer for speaking to the press.
Created 5 days ago • 20 documents • Range: 12/26 9:22am – 12/26 1:00pm
"Dude called mountain rescue because of “pain in his legs”. I there isn’t pain in your legs you aren’t doing it properly."
I think this was less of a problem before social media. When I first did Crib Goch, I went with someone who had done it before. He had first done it with his brother who had been introduced by someone experienced. I later went with my brother. Now people see reels online and jump in the car.
"Dude called mountain rescue because of “pain in his legs”. I there isn’t pain in your legs you aren’t doing it properly."
From the story it sounds like he was having muscle pains due to the low temperature rather than just exhaustion, and the real problem here was the stupid decision to do crib goch, a scrambling route with serious height exposure, with cold wet weather closing in and limited experience. Still stupid.
"Further confirmation that anyone who seriously called themselves as an influencer is actually a useless dickhead. Didn't check the forecast, ignored thr changing weather and got caught out. Which then put a resuce team at risk. I hope they made a large donation to the MR team."
Or taking the right gear. Nothing wrong with a bit of bad weather. Here is my photo of my friend Dermot on the Aonach Eagach (similar to Crib Goch but more remote). The Aonach Eagach and Crib Goch are similar because, being ridges, navigation is easy.
"Further confirmation that anyone who seriously called themselves as an influencer is actually a useless dickhead. Didn't check the forecast, ignored thr changing weather and got caught out. Which then put a resuce team at risk. I hope they made a large donation to the MR team."
Yup. We so need a B ark.
"Anyone can cock up - a few of my best: - fucking my nav on crossfell in zero visa, ending up missing the path and wandering off down a scree slop - deciding tp race a named storm as ascend Tryfan in 80 mph winds - getting benighted in a tshirt, in winter, running Grassington -> Buckden"
School trip. Fortunately I was very small and fell into a snow drift :) The teachers were highly amused.
"Further confirmation that anyone who seriously called themselves as an influencer is actually a useless dickhead. Didn't check the forecast, ignored thr changing weather and got caught out. Which then put a resuce team at risk. I hope they made a large donation to the MR team."
It takes a special kind of idiot to plan a mountaineering trip, without looking at the forecast!
Anyone can cock up - a few of my best: - fucking my nav on crossfell in zero visa, ending up missing the path and wandering off down a scree slop - deciding tp race a named storm as ascend Tryfan in 80 mph winds - getting benighted in a tshirt, in winter, running Grassington -> Buckden
The weather on Snowden is notoriously unpredictable and falls from that ridge are unfortunately not uncommon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Spoiler: “Nathan, a fitness influencer”"
Also luckily I was carrying a spare expedition quality wall-quilted down jacket. Even with that, John was very cold by the time the chopper turned up. As it happened we knew the crew, John is in MRT and trains with them. Those mountains bite.
"Further confirmation that anyone who seriously called themselves as an influencer is actually a useless dickhead. Didn't check the forecast, ignored thr changing weather and got caught out. Which then put a resuce team at risk. I hope they made a large donation to the MR team."
I do however commend them for speaking about it to the press, that takes some guts because they're going to get a lot of stick, but it might stop others being similarly stupid. Having 'influencers' admit they're wrong will do more good than all of us old hands moaning about them
