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  • Blog Post: 'Brain Buckets' - A Climber's Best Friend?

    I am dating myself, but when I started rock climbing, almost everyone wore helmets. It was as essential a piece of gear as your harness and shoes. But in the decades that followed, helmets became passe. Part of that change had to do with climbing styles and style (fashion) in climbing. Some comes from...
    onMon, Feb 13 2012

  • Blog Post: Understanding the Risk Gap in outdoor adventure programming

    The Risk Gap is a concept that I've employed for many years as one of my strategies for managing risk while running a college outdoor program. I've just posted a video explaining the Risk Gap concept along with a PowerPoint file that you can download for using in your own program as a risk management...
    onSun, Nov 28 2010

  • Blog Post: New Safety Protocols Developed by Outdoor Pursuits Centre

    OPC Issues Report on Managatepopo Tragedy As a follow-up on my previous posting about the New Zealand Canyoning incident in April 2008, the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre (OPC) has released a report that contains all the recommendations from the independent review into the Managatepopo tragedy...
    onTue, Sep 21 2010

  • Blog Post: David Breashears' Storm Over Everest - a Risk Management Case Study

    If you missed the spectacular Frontline documentary on PBS by David Breashears on the 1996 Everest tragedy you can watch the full two hour episode online at Frontline . There are also interviews with expedition members and interactive maps of the mountain and the accident. The documentary is a fantastic...
    onSun, May 18 2008

  • Blog Post: Responding to the Tragedy in New Zealand

    On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 a five-day backcountry adventure trip in Tongariro National Park on the North Island in New Zealand ended tragically when 6 students and a teacher died. In a small country like New Zealand, where adventure activities are a part of the culture, this is a national tragedy. Our...
    onWed, Apr 16 2008
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