Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
While the recent inquest has brought the Safety Requirements into the spotlight and triggered a necessary revision and a healthy debate, we fellrunners need to remember that the actual cause of death was, once again, our old enemy hypothermia.
The very first safety requirement (1.1) states that we runners must accept primary responsibility for our own safety on the fells. This is important, because nobody else, not even the race organiser, is in a better position to look after us while we are running in the fells.
But to do this, we need to be aware of the nature and dangers of hypothermia; what it can do, and what to watch out for.
To help with this, the FRA, with a great deal of assistance from IanDarkPeak, has produced a booklet to remind us and to advise us.
This will be going out with the forthcoming FRA Handbook, and I would urge everybody to read it, and keep it.
One day the words will come back to you when it matters!
Alan, I absolutely agree. The recent debate has tended to focus on legal and litigation considerations rather than actual safety. That's important of course but leaving it aside and focussing purely on safety; If the history of fellrunning has taught us one important safety lesson above all it's that our biggest enemy when out on the fells is hypothermia.