Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I will be having words with my proof-reader re. the matter in question.Fool or empties?
The bottles, of course, should be full of whisky - Glenmorangie whisky.
Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I will be having words with my proof-reader re. the matter in question.Fool or empties?
A rather sobering conversation when someone brought up the use of epi-pens when in the countryside with a paramedic on a first aid course.If they need a defib on the hill they're dead. In an urban setting you have a 2% chance of survival with CPR and a quick ambulance response. Odds go up to 10% if there is quick access to an AED.
Those odds are pretty bad. On the hill if you need an AED the time taken to get it to you basically brings the odds to near 0%. Even if you are getting CPR that needs to be maintained all the while you're being carried off the hill.
The only thing that could save a cardiac arrest, MI or similar is if an air ambulance or coastguard heli gets to you bloody quick.
Agreed - that said, there are a few instances where arrest can happen due to complications during treatment - an example would be a severe hypothermia case and cold blood from the extremes gets to the heart when the cas is moved/packaged - but we also know that the odds are if a defib is used, it'll probably be on one of our own team...If they need a defib on the hill they're dead. In an urban setting you have a 2% chance of survival with CPR and a quick ambulance response. Odds go up to 10% if there is quick access to an AED.
Those odds are pretty bad. On the hill if you need an AED the time taken to get it to you basically brings the odds to near 0%. Even if you are getting CPR that needs to be maintained all the while you're being carried off the hill.
The only thing that could save a cardiac arrest, MI or similar is if an air ambulance or coastguard heli gets to you bloody quick.
I've seen queues on Crib Goch. Caused by a pushchair on the first occasion, a terrified and massive husky on the second occasion and by RAMC trying to carry a fridge (fitted with a rucksack back-frame) on the third occasion...From the attached:
“I managed to find somewhere to park and I had planned to take a quieter route up the mountain – but there were no quieter routes,” he said.
You will always find Crib Goch quiet....even so, I avoid Snowdon Massif these days, the Sports Direct/GoOutdoors crowd have ruined it
...and by RAMC trying to carry a fridge (fitted with a rucksack back-frame) on the third occasion...
Bit of a drift, not so much on the hill, more on the road, the North Coast 500. Discovered it years ago, when it was just a quiet backwater. I'm not speaking from a selfish viewpoint, more a practical one. It's all they say in the bumf, but what about the infrastructure? Eating facilities, B & B, single track roads which very few are used to, and most importantly, toilets! I've no problem with finding a bush, others way not be so happy. Don't know if things have changed since it was first thought of, if so Fairy*'nuff, if not it's going to be a wee problem until it's sorted. Drift over.
*Lobby Dosser fans know who I mean.
Yeah I know. They were on the wrong mountain... Electric Mountain - Dinorwig Power StationWhere did they think they would plug it in?
A rather sobering conversation when someone brought up the use of epi-pens when in the countryside with a paramedic on a first aid course.
NC500 has been covered on the following threads.
This year's holiday
Anybody into wild camping
And the thread called
NC500
Looks like a possible solution to me
...and by RAMC trying to carry a fridge (fitted with a rucksack back-frame) on the third occasion...
I don't believe this....how do you get a push chair up onto the ridge?I've seen queues on Crib Goch. Caused by a pushchair on the first occasion, a terrified and massive husky on the second occasion and by RAMC trying to carry a fridge (fitted with a rucksack back-frame) on the third occasion...
I sat and watched that videoAt £440,000 a set they're coming to MR! Can barely afford to keep the 4x4 on the road most years.
That's the ambulance service having a play. AFAIK the HARTs are already sniffing around getting moist at the prospect of a new toy they'll never use in anger
Not electric as recharging would be difficult and takes forever. K I S S Quad bike.looking at the section he flew over, a decent quad bike, would get you much nearer to the top, a lot cheaper, and every member of the team could be trained to use it
or an electric mountain bike
I sat and watched that video
clever stuff, but to a tradesman used to being offered complicated solutions to simple problems a few thoughts
what if the only bloke who can fly it is off sick ? or gets a bit diva and wants to move on to better things
how much does his training cost ??
how long does it take to put on, fuel it , test ,then after flying shut down that rocket pack, unstrap it ( its chuffin hot) and find somewhere to put it down, where it wont roll away, start a fire, or get small stones inside it , or get fiddled with by a mong friend of the casualty?
where are you going to store this thing ? not in the landrover, because some cretin on the piss would decide to break in and test fly it in front of his mates to make a you tube video
how much is servicing and inspection and re training ??
what if it gets damaged bouncing about in the landie ? its buggered
flying time is ten minutes !
so you need to get it near to the location with a Landrover, which unless I am much mistaken is not very fast
if it runs out of fuel on top of the mountain, some poor sod is going to have to hump it down
looking at the section he flew over, a decent quad bike, would get you much nearer to the top, a lot cheaper, and every member of the team could be trained to use it
or an electric mountain bike
nice idea
but too many problems
also more stupid people will put themselves at risk on mountains as they thing jetman will sweep them up in his arms and carry them away
look how cellular phones have raised stupidity to even greater heights
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