Hello all good people, mountain lovers!
The dust from the rockfall has settled, thoughts are calmer. First an old Chinese wisdom: To do something that would please three people is an art that no one has mastered to this day. Everything in life is relative and subjectively experienced! In more demanding situations, it always shows what stuff someone is made of. Every decision for risk is completely individual! And at the scene itself, it's always different in reality than in later discussions of non-participants.
A word on irresponsible behavior at the end.
On Saturday there was a small note on the board for Hanzova (approx 1800 m) saying Hanzova is IMPASSABLE. The decision to attempt the crossing was spontaneous and backed by long years of mountaineering experience of most in that group. Current (new) conditions then influenced the changed course of the tour just below the saddle.
I just want to highlight two things:
- to accuse AS of irresponsible behavior after all those long years of mountaineering mileage and extreme ascents means putting him in the same basket as someone who climbs a few easy peaks in summer. The "risk" threshold for both is probably justifiably very different.
- "mountaineering" was accused of looking to Europe, which in this case has nothing to do with us. Anyone who even occasionally visits online mountaineering portals probably knows well who resides at that address. Maybe the content of all those diverse tours in his archive counts for something. Whoever knows him personally knows that safety is always first with him! With the mention of Europe, he just wanted to point out that (certainly in Austria and Germany) the ZPP manager after the early morning rockfall at the start (parking lot), nearby mountain hut and on the entry part under the wall until midday would just put up visible warnings about CLOSED path. At least on the Antenna 3 channel it would be repeated several times as a warning to hikers planning this tour.
When my mountaineering colleague "reprimanded" me, I asked him an interesting question: "What if he was in the company of Viki Grošelj?" And the answer, something like that with such mountaineering capacity they would easily manage something much "harder"!
Finally, thoughts on (ir)responsible action. Where would humanity be today if we always acted only prudently, in accordance with existing rules and never risked anything. Where to rank those masses of "hikers" who go to ZPP without helmet and self-belay kit?
Everything is relative! For me, more irresponsible is the picture in the diary with two children playfully playing with the home pet-python. And the cover of an important monthly before summer showing a happy trio in a canoe: grandpa (who by the paddle hold has no clue about paddling) and two grandchildren - all three on water without life jackets!
Nice evening to all! And safe steps on our wonderful mountains!
And don't burden everyone with possible renewed "polemic"! In individual communication we can confront arguments. Surely only they count?