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confident with the conditions and terrain and not a liability
I think I just completely disagree with this. His movement on rock on the ridge, and sliding down wet grass were both a disaster waiting to happen. Everyone likes to tout that accidents can happen to anyone, but in my experience they seem to happen to certain people more than others. I don't think I'm immune to injury or accident for that matter, but considering I spotted so many red flags in such a short video, it doesn't come as a surprise that things went south.
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I agree to some extent, but where do you draw the line? What would be lethal conditions for some might be fine for an experienced party. Also, the bloke who got injured and his mate weren't originally with "Brave Dave", they just followed him down off the ridge.
I guess my summary is Dave is a twat but he was confident with the conditions and terrain and not a liability. Big mistake was dropping off the ridge AND taking two randoms with him. (suspect he dropped into "guiding" mode without thinking that he had no idea of these guys' skills & experience) None of this covers him glory.
However once the accident had happened he stayed calm, did the right things and contributed to saving the guy's life.