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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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Origins - The Hulk

Climbing legend Peter Croft mentors boulderer Lisa Rands on the finer points of alpine free climbing...
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Himalaya Speed PART 1: Training in the Khumbu

This first Episode chronicles alpinist Ueli Steck's high elevation training and acclimation in the Himalaya...
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Himalaya Speed PART 2: Climbing Cholatse

Alpinists Ueli Steck and Freddie Wilkinson tackle the north face of Cholatse when the weather takes a...
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Himalaya Speed PART 3: Shishapangma

In Part 3, Ueli Steck applies his trademark fast and light Alpine climbing tactics to 8,000 meter peaks...
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Dr. Tom Hornbein - Entries from the Top: An Everest Journal

Featured in the American Mountaineering Museum, this video series asks Mt Everest climbers why they climb...
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