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READ and UNDERSTAND THIS WARNING
Climbing is inherently dangerous
Like smoking, climbing buildings, rock, ice, and mountaineering are addictive and inherently dangerous habits. Although we are here to help support you with these particular habits, you or your partner(s) could be seriously injured or killed while either climbing, on approach, bivying, or camping. No amount of instruction or expertise can eliminate the inherent hazards in climbing mountains, rock, or ice. Unfortunately, climbing smart, fast, and light cannot eliminate all the risks and hazards of climbing. Trick gear won’t always help either.
The Mountain Guide Bureau and its sponsors encourages all visitors of its site, to seek proper instruction before climbing, and we have included on this site a list, as well as links, to a variety of certified guides that can offer sound instruction, and a safe and fun adventure. In additional to professional instruction, we recommend that every climber seek written information that can help enhance your knowledge of technique and equipment usage, complementing your investment in formal instruction. For a selection of books, go to BradleyAlpinist.com.
THERE ARE OTHER HAZARDS…arriving alive
The Mountaing Guide Bureau, and its sponsors, also understand that many of your risks associated with climbing will have to do with your all transportation just to get to the trail head; either by other people on the road driving like idiots, wet weather and icy road conditions, or those hairball taxi rides in foreign countries. There is a saying in the mountaineering community that in some countries, if the mountain doesn’t kill you, the taxi ride just might. We all know that driving is more dangerous and risky than climbing, so why make things worse by drinking and driving. Although climbing activities contribute to beer tasting so good, Never Drink and Drive. If you have been drinking, have a designated driver, and always have disk-two of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti in your CD changer.
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