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Maybe I’m being too harsh, or I’m just used to being with very competent people on the hills - usually fell runners or climbers. But that guy is a guide of some sort. Pretty ridiculous that he’d potentially be in charge of paying customers. Obviously what he does with clients will be very different to what he’s doing in the video, but still.
Nef-
I take your point here - I looked at some of his other videos and he's a Grade-A twat for sure, I would not be paying him money to be guided by him. Calling yourself "Brave Dave" is a massive red flag for starters
During and after the accident happened I didn't have any particular criticisms. If he wants to be on Crib Goch in those conditions that's his problem but his big error was using the escape route that was clearly very dangerous, and more dangerous than continuing over Carnedd Ugain (when you've past the most technical sections already if I recall), but worse persuading the other two suckers to follow him down.
el_presidente
Sobering video. I thought they did OK. The guy videoing was more confident on the steep ground so I thought it was fair enough to get more help. Big errors 1) trying to do Crib Goch in those conditions (with a deteriorating forecast), but a bigger error in my opinion was trying to escape to the Pyg Track half way along. The guy videoing and his partner seemed OK, the guy who got injured and his partner almost seemed to be persuaded to use that route and my impression was they were less experienced and hence it ended badly.