Safety of Mountaineering
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Eng4u
Hehe Zhang
Mr.D’Apice
May 13th
teenager nearly falls off mountain
—— stop counting money, start thinking of security
This morning, Riley, a 14 years old boy who was hiking on Sanqing mountain with his
parents, almost fall off the cliff.
while Riley’s parents was enjoying scenery, he tried to rush to the top of a rock for
broadening field of vision. Exceeding his expectation, the rock was actually the edge of the
cliff, and there was no warning sign or guardrail. Fortunately, he grabbed a brunch of a tree
preventing the worsening of the situation.
He was flown to local hospital in a critical condition suffering a head injury, bruising and
abrasions. He was not completely alert at the time.
‘‘There’s no indication that it was anything other than a terrible accident,’’ his mother said
with weeping bitter tears, ’’We are hoping and praying that he will recover soon.’’
The presence of other tourists said the circumstances of exactly how the boy rush out the
edge were unclear, although he was not believed to be skylarking at the time.
Chinese mountaineering association points that climbers are facing a serious problem:
lack of safety facilities and aging guardrails on most mountains. Chinese government
requires that the guardrails on mountains or
ramps are 122 cm (4 ft) height or more
above the adjacent floor or grade level, but as
matter of fact, the responsible officer of Chinese
mountaineering association tell the author that on
many mountains the guardrails are serious aging
and even more mountains with no any security
facility at all. So safety is the most severe
problem tourists have to handle nowadays.
The now-famous falling-off-Table-Mountain
picture. It is faked, but perhaps this (if not
the...
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