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Recently, I wandered into a store in Tokyo and bought an ice axe, a pair of crampons and some other snow & ice equipment. Like a rebreather, it is specialist equipment that requires special training. The purchase of it virtually guarantees that you are about to be put in harm's way. Nobody asked for a proof of training: formal training is not required to do snow & ice climbing, but people die in the mountains in droves, frozen into statues. On some mountains they just leave them there. You can get literally blown off Fuji in winter, and the weather changes can be near instantaneous and brutal. On my way off Mt Fuji in early February I was taking off those crampons when I saw a young American couple dressed in sneekers and jeans jackets about to try and climb it: two innocent sacrificial lambs for the weather Gods. Somebody should have asked for their common-sense certificates. It's interesting that people sue the manufacturers in diving, but wouldn't think of blaming the equipment in mountaineering. Why? Because PADI taught them that diving is safe when it's not? - so if there is an accident there must be an equipment manufacturer or a boat captain or an instructor to blame. Why is diving so much more litigious than other adventure sports? Because the mass diving agencies have given people unrealistic expectations about safety? Or because there's so much money washing around that it's a magnet to ambulance-chasing lawyers?
Training is expensive, but I feel I have a God-given right to extract maximum value out of it. If the course has little new material, I feel I have a right to buttonhole the instructor and get him to help with advice on modifying the equipment and answering my 'what if' scenarios. He, on the other hand, has a duty to himself to try and stretch me with extra exercises. He might have preferred to spend the time joking with his mates on the dive boat, but he needs me to leave the course feeling I got my money's worth, because he has a business to run. So if I walk away thinking it was a waste of time, both instructor and student have failed. There's something seriously wrong if you spend a couple of days with a first class diver and fail to walk away a better diver yourself.
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