Quote Originally Posted by logicmonkey View Post
only on this forum could you see the discussion as to whether a fall was measured on the ground or as a vertical distance. someone came up with a number that they thought was plausible. erm - that's it.
Monkey logic must be different from day-to-day precision I was almost compelled to reply to IDP's very sensible post that Whernside's not in The Lakes and it was Cave Rescue..
numbers aside, that's a bloody long way to fall.
Agreed. I was more bothered that news websites had arbitrarily increased the size of the tumble by more than 50% based (probably) on no evidence whatsoever. Having seen the evidence (photo), it turns out they might have been right, on this occasion.