Quote Originally Posted by Stolly View Post
Come on AI, even in the case in point the race organisers negligence couldn't be pinned down as the actual cause of death. A runner falls over off line and bangs his head and unfortunately dies. Yes better organisation might have alerted a search a bit earlier which might perhaps have saved the day but, either way, it was a slip and fall coupled with bad weather that directly caused the death.
Not this time.

But as I have been at pains to point out, the coroner judges us on our own rules. If the discrepancies had been a contributory cause, the coroner would have had a duty to point it out, if our rules say we can and do do that. That would have opened the door to a minefield.

Fell races should be "on your own head be it" but every undertaking the organiser gives you are entitled to assume in assessing the risk you are taking. And some sm*rt arse lawyer (and UKA if history is anything to go by) will point that out in spades. Wynn is being asked to warrant the impossible. Her course has climbing/dangerous ground and her weather can be dangerous. Yet she is supposed to agree it is not.