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Ice, Shattered ankle, self rescue, all on tape 24-Nov-2011 At 12:32:37 PM Cesca

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On 24/11/2011 davidn wrote:
>My concern is also that the judgement and name-calling (evidenced in recent
>threads) mostly means that the climbers feel attacked and disinclined to
>share their stories. As mikl would say, learning from their experiences
>is useful to us all...

Have to agree with this. Online and real-life judgement/backstabbing/criticism of people who've been rescued is rife in New Zealand as well, and it doesn't help anyone. I *know* there are occasional rescues here in NZ where it seems the rescuees relied too much on the rescue service or chose to ignore advice that was given to them, but there are far many more rescues where this is not the case - where things genuinely went wrong and those involved did their best under the circumstances.