climbing assidents
Question
what percentage of climbing accidents are done by beginers, intermediate climbers and advanced climbers?
are serious accidents ussualy due to inexperience a lack of proper knowedge on how equipment is used or a failure of equipment?
Answer
Dear James: The American Alpine Club publishes stats. on accidents every year in its Accidents in North American Mountaineering volumn.
Here is one link with some of those stats:
http://www.bml.umn.edu/~peter/climbing/ANAM/ANAM.html
here is the club's page:
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/knowledge/publications-acc.asp
Good Luck---------for more on climbing safety please see "Ultrasafe a Guide to Safer Rock Climbing," at Amazon.com
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