This a*se should be arrested
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They're still looking for this guy on Ben Nevis, in high winds and snow.A major search is under way to find a man who is believed to have been scaling Ben Nevis.
Tomas Gafrik, from Slovakia, was last heard of on Thursday morning when he posted a short film of himself on social media.
His position was just above Half Way Lochan on the UK's highest mountain.
Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team (LMRT) has been searching since Sunday morning. The area is set to be hit by heavy snow and 50-80mph winds.
About 27 members of the team are involved in the search, along with a helicopter and 12 members of other groups.
LMRT posted on Facebook: "His intention after going up Ben Nevis was to visit the 'fjords' in this area so we need to check if he has been seen since in case the search on the Ben is a wild goose chase."
The rescue team added that the expected weather conditions would "make any search around summits extremely difficult".
Earlier in the year they had to go looking for a number of foreign tourists stuck up there in bad weather. They had no safety equipment, maps, compasses and were wearing trainers.
Bit like the lifeboat guys, people have to risk their lives to find and save (or sadly sometimes bring back the bodies) of people who put their lives at risk in ridiculous weather conditions.
Tomas Gafrik, from Slovakia, was last heard of on Thursday morning when he posted a short film of himself on social media.
His position was just above Half Way Lochan on the UK's highest mountain.
Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team (LMRT) has been searching since Sunday morning. The area is set to be hit by heavy snow and 50-80mph winds.
About 27 members of the team are involved in the search, along with a helicopter and 12 members of other groups.
LMRT posted on Facebook: "His intention after going up Ben Nevis was to visit the 'fjords' in this area so we need to check if he has been seen since in case the search on the Ben is a wild goose chase."
The rescue team added that the expected weather conditions would "make any search around summits extremely difficult".
Earlier in the year they had to go looking for a number of foreign tourists stuck up there in bad weather. They had no safety equipment, maps, compasses and were wearing trainers.
Bit like the lifeboat guys, people have to risk their lives to find and save (or sadly sometimes bring back the bodies) of people who put their lives at risk in ridiculous weather conditions.
It would be a poor world if we banned people from doing risky sports.
I used to do a lot of serious white water canoeing, only had one incident and there was one death when we were in Austria (not our party fortunately) .
But, while I think the emergency and rescue services should be available to attempt rescue, it should be based on a reasonable risk assessment and not seriously put the rescuer at risk of death too. Certainly when we train at work the the Lancashire fire service, dynamic risk assessments are deployed to balance risk to the firefighter against saving life.
As such, I think, crack on, just don't expect people to kill themselves to rescue you.
Its just us (as part of the nuclear emergency team) that are asked to take a risk to stop a nuclear release, and even then its volunteers
I used to do a lot of serious white water canoeing, only had one incident and there was one death when we were in Austria (not our party fortunately) .
But, while I think the emergency and rescue services should be available to attempt rescue, it should be based on a reasonable risk assessment and not seriously put the rescuer at risk of death too. Certainly when we train at work the the Lancashire fire service, dynamic risk assessments are deployed to balance risk to the firefighter against saving life.
As such, I think, crack on, just don't expect people to kill themselves to rescue you.
Its just us (as part of the nuclear emergency team) that are asked to take a risk to stop a nuclear release, and even then its volunteers
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