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Towards the end there's a section on personal liability that states: "Almost no country has laws that require anyone to help a stranger in distress". Except for Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic,Towards the end there's a section on personal liability that states: "Almost no country has laws that require anyone to help a stranger in distress". Except for Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Tunisia. Note that this includes several of the most popular mountaineering destinations: much of the Alps, all of the Pyrénées, parts of the Patagonian Andes, etc. If you are going to write a section on personal liability, you ought to do the absolute bare minimum of research on the subject......more
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Weird start to this latest (7th) edition, published in 2021 (in the midst of Covid). They advise wearing a mask and making the patient wear a mask when approaching somebody who was recently the victim of an accident. This sounds not only silly (surelWeird start to this latest (7th) edition, published in 2021 (in the midst of Covid). They advise wearing a mask and making the patient wear a mask when approaching somebody who was recently the victim of an accident. This sounds not only silly (surely this is not the top priority when approaching someone who had an accident in the wilderness?) but actively detrimental: how are you going to assess airway obstructions and breathing, and how are you going to communicate efficiently, if the patient's mouth and half of their face is covered by a mask? This is not a huge deal but it's such a glaringly weird stance that it doesn't bode well for the rest of the advice in this book....more
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