Aldaron
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In 2010 I collected a bunch of stats on how people died in the backcountry in an effort to identify the most common cause of death.
The results supported what I had always heard: falling is the most common cause.
Well, now I have it in my head that I would like to collect the stats again, in an effort to gather more details about how people die in the backcountry. And since it's the beginning of the year, it's the perfect time to start.
But I'd like to learn from what I did in 2010 and make the information more useful and more complete.
To that end, I wanted to see if we could start a thread where people could post links to stories about backcountry deaths to help me collect the data.
]So, could we make this the thread where we post links about backcountry deaths?
And is there any specific information people would like to see collected? I thought about collecting info on people injured in the backcountry, but there's just no way to make that information complete, because most injuries are never reported in the media.
The results supported what I had always heard: falling is the most common cause.
Well, now I have it in my head that I would like to collect the stats again, in an effort to gather more details about how people die in the backcountry. And since it's the beginning of the year, it's the perfect time to start.
But I'd like to learn from what I did in 2010 and make the information more useful and more complete.
To that end, I wanted to see if we could start a thread where people could post links to stories about backcountry deaths to help me collect the data.
]So, could we make this the thread where we post links about backcountry deaths?
And is there any specific information people would like to see collected? I thought about collecting info on people injured in the backcountry, but there's just no way to make that information complete, because most injuries are never reported in the media.