Hikers in trainers and jogging bottoms with no equipment rescued from -15°C mountain
Hikers in trainers and jogging bottoms with no equipment rescued from -15°C mountain
Posted by StGuthlac2025
Hikers in trainers and jogging bottoms with no equipment rescued from -15°C mountain
Hikers in trainers and jogging bottoms with no equipment rescued from -15°C mountain
Posted by StGuthlac2025
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Read this yesterday on the mountain rescuers fb page and couldn’t believe how fucking stupid they were. I still can’t believe it
Sadly anyone who does this probably doesn’t have the brain capacity to learn a lesson
They should be billed and made to pay for their rescue
Odds that they were a bit drunk? Nobody attempts to climb a mountain at 18:30 in the dark in winter when sober.
Setting off to a mountain in the dead of winter without appropriate gear is dumb enough, but in the dead dark at 6pm? Seriously?
People vastly underestimate danger often. My team and myself had to rescue two young lads from a deep and complex mine system a couple of years back. They went down with no equipment, just had the torches from their phones. They got lost, their batteries ran out and they were stuffed, luckily they just gave up and sat down rather than trying to find their way in the dark, they sobbed when we found them. luckily they were smart enough to tell someone where they were going beforehand or they probably would have died down there.
The other day I hiked up Whernside in the Dales. Winds were about 60-70mph, strong enough to blow me to the ground a couple of times and for other hikers to turn back due to the extremity of it all.
Up comes a bloke in jeans, trainers and a overcoat. He tells me he’s never done this before and I firmly warn him against going up further.
What does he do?
Goes up anyway. Idiots.
As always bravado out paces skill.
If you don’t have the right gear and don’t have experience then don’t go up a hill more so at night in the winter.
I did Hellvelyn in the summer once with some friends and couldn’t believe the amount of people in inappropriate footwear.
One of my friends told me that a bunch of idiots from her work who didn’t really do any walking had attempted it in the snow in trainers and trackies. They got half way before a passer by told them in no uncertain terms that there was no way they could reach the summit dressed as they were.
Highland Cops on iPlayer is an eye opener for just how unforgiving some of the landscape up in Scotland is on the unprepared.
These people cannot be called hikers. Hikers would know whatbthey were doing and be prepared for it.
These were what is commonly known as dumb assed fucking idiots
So they decided to climb a mountain, the second highest mountain in Scotland no less, in the middle of winter, with no appropriate equipment, after dark, in tracksuit bottoms and trainers?
I don’t even know how to respond to such stupidity.
6pm would have been dark to start, wtaf.
Who raised these? Stand up. Stand 10 toes down and explain yourself.
Went on a walk in late October a couple of years ago. Last one of the year. We’d agreed on a 4 hour. Turned out the guy navigating had loaded a 5 hour walk.
Apparently not enough steps for him. Only learnt this after him telling us we still had 3 hours left at 15:00. We should have had an hour left.
“When you decided to extend the walk, did you think about when the sun sets”
“Why when will it set”
I just stared at one of the guys who was a reservist. He took the lead. An hour later, he managed to cut off a good 30 minutes and got back to the road before the light got too dim.
It wasn’t the first time either he had done something like this but it was in summer so it wasn’t too bad. What I didn’t get is he was meant to be into hiking. We were dumb enough to leave it too him but he was a bit moany if others took charge.
Not walked with him since.
I was coming down with a group off Snowdon a few years ago, February, we were in full winter gear 2.30 pm, past a lad in trainers and a shell suit, closely followed by his girlfriend, in a mini skirt and a going out coat, urged them to turn around and descend with us, Llanberis MR had to extract them around 10pm, hypothermic and lost. 🤦♂️
When your mountain climbing experience comes mainly from Skyrim…
What I find weird about this is where they were rescued from. Ben Macdui isn’t actually that hard of a climb – there’s a steep but well-paved track upward from the ski centre, from which you do a very long, flat hike across a plateau to the Macdui summit.
But these guys were found in Coire an t-Sneachda, which means they decided *not* to use the well-paved ascent, but instead tried to reach the plateau via a tiny goat’s path going up essentially a sheer cliff face – a route that’s only about a kilometre west of the normal one.
So these guys not were not only unprepared with regard to gear and daylight, they *actively* chose to avoid the easy route in favour of one that’s essentially impossible in winter conditions. Bizarre.
People now feel entitled to do things with no experience or planning and expect to be rescued when it goes wrong.
I suspect that part of the issue children are too protected these days.
As a child I quickly learned about things hurting.
No mobile phones, no GPS, having to read a map and use a compass. If it all went wrong you had to be equipped to be trapped for some time.
These people need educated, not only putting themselves in danger but also the people who will have to rescue them.
Seen this with my own eyes on Snowden. The summit was unreal on miners path clouds going up wind blowing left and right. Never experienced anything like it. We were only 50m from the summit but bailed for safety. On our way down a couple in joggers and trainers passed us we tried to stop them but nope. I have no idea how long after we get buzzed by yellow sea king signalled all ok and it went off up Snowden I guess to rescue those muppets. I would not fancy flying a helicopter in the weather we bailed from.
We’re gonna get to the stage where we need neon glowing signs around and along every single mountain route telling people what is and isn’t appropriate to wear, and what conditions aren’t suitable either 🤦♀️
*Hikers?* These aren’t hikers; they’re as complete a pair of morons as it’s possible to be. Actual hikers would’ve had the correct kit and a plan.
I still don’t get the “Trainer” hate…even in winter I probably do about 50% of my walking in aproach shoes (IE: Trainers)
Only going for ankle support if I know i’m going to need it…
These days barring a need for proper rigids for winter conditions (IE: Crampons) and deciding its a day for ankle support there’s no difference between trainers and boots…indeed many ranges the boots and trainers are built on the same bottom just with raised sides.
Could have very easily ended up worse. Glad they were able to survive to learn the lesson!
Why should the rescuers have to put their lives at risk for such stupidity? The idiots should at least be charged the cost of their rescue and hospital treatment- but they won’t.
That’s so silly
I’m from the Lake District and do regularly climb some of the easier routes in trainers and jeans… on mild summer days with no bad weather forecast
I wouldn’t even consider it in winter – boots and proper cold weather clothes are the absolute bare minimum for obvious reasons, for anything more difficult than eg Tarn Hows