Quote Originally Posted by alwaysinjured View Post
The risk of mortality in a fell race is higher than cycling or driving to the race per hour, by perhaps an order of magnitude, (where is the surprise in that?)
Well it surprises me. Does anyone even know how many hours are spent fell racing? Do you have a source?

Anyway, the number of fatalities in in fell races is so small that I'm not sure that it makes sense to calculate a risk of mrtality per hour.

I agree with some of your more general points about the safety rules issue though.