" cupra" wrote in message
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Steven Briggs wrote:
In message , Peter Ashby
writes
See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/n...re/4293141.stm

Complete Wuss.
If he walked to the top of the hill "to keep in touch with the
police", he could have walked down to the nearest farmhouse / village
/ village pub and spent the night in comfort. Complete waste
resources to rescue a fit, healthy man from a bit of snow.

Walking to the 'nearest' farmhouse / village / pub in a blizzard is one of
the worst things you can do! Repeatedly walking to the top of the hill was
foolhardy as well, once he'd contacted the authorities.


Yep unless you know where you are going and how far, the advice up here has
always been to stay put, find the best shelter you can and call for information
on weather conditions and to tell people where you are and then rationally plan
the next course of action together. If you are injured then you should call the
rescue services. Walking in a genuine blizzard is a sure way of cooling the body
rapidly, mild hypothermia soon sets in unless you are wearing proper arctic
clothing and then you lose the ability to think and reason and start wandering
aimlessly getting colder and colder and then - you lose consciousness and die.

There have been a few deaths on Dartmoor over the years, even in summer, due to
people being outside in driving rain with insufficient protection (tent or
clothing).

Will.
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