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The climbing and mountaineering community is great about reviewing past accidents (especially deadly ones) to understand the root causes. Every year the Americ
by qbasic_forever 6y ago
The climbing and mountaineering community is great about reviewing past accidents (especially deadly ones) to understand the root causes. Every year the American Alpine society produces a new volume of Accidents in North American Climbing and it's well worth a read: http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/about_the_accidents http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/about_the_acciden... Most things are human error like rappelling off the end of a rope, but there's usually a few really big team or trip planning failures like avalanches, etc.
There's a podcast they do related to it called The Sharp End and it's worth a listen too: https://www.thesharpendpodcast.com/ https://www.thesharpendpodcast.com/
- teachrdan 6y agoI can't recommend this series enough. Most accidents are described in plain language in a page or two with a concise analysis at the end. From one analysis of people hurt in an ice avalanche: "if it looks like it is going to fall it is probably going to fall." You learn a lot of interesting facts you might never otherwise find out. In the above example, the avalanche was so powerful it generated an air blast in front of the debris that ejected sleeping campers out of their tents below. The authors also have a low-key sense of humor and a subdued flair for language. This series is where I learned the phrase "injuries incompatible with life," as in, "Rescuers spotted the missing climbers from a helicopter the next day but saw that they had sustained injuries incompatible with life." It really puts a failed git rebase in perspective.