Original story/thread here.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=637611
Her less tabloid version is still an absolute head scratcher. Its the highest hill in the UK,
1600m or thereabouts, as hills go it’s not that big, and in decent weather you can be up and down in a few hours. OK not in winter in shorts, but people do run up/down the track, even I’ve jogged it, it’s hardly the matterhorn.
It’s been 13C and Sunny for most of the past fortnight down south at sea level. Easy-ish to forget it’s winter.
Yet you chosse to climb up a ‘bit’ in your shorts and shoes, in snow (as clearly your shorts were covered). At some point surely you realised that it could go wrong. Honestly. What a load of balls, I’m pleased you will go and get some education but FFS use your brain and common sense first.
Can we start another “Do you wear shorts to go mountain biking in winter” thread so all the hard men can come out and extol the virtues of their skimpy wardrobe choices.
Pretty easy to set off walking, it gets a bit cooler as you get going, and a bit cooler, nearly there, almost there, bugger better turn back, and find that actually you’ve now got to spend the same time again walking back and you’re already cold.
Not saying she’s not a bit daft, but doesn’t deserve quite this level of tabloid venom!
She made it to the top, then waited for the guys she met up there to pack up their climbing gear for the walk back down, arguably a very sensible thing to do in the conditions, and good to admit when you’ve made a mistake. Alternatively, maybe if she hadn’t waited she wouldn’t have caught hypothermia and would have made it back to her car and we’d never have heard of her?