Safety Rules
Exhilarating and rewarding mountaineering is also the recreational pursuit associated with the highest risk of personal injury and death, so one must be careful if one shall pursue mountaineering.
Consider the following list of mountain safety rules primary, and always enforced and adhere to them.
- Never climb unroped on exposed slopes, glaciers, snowfields, and areas prone to avalanche.
- Rope teams should consist of at least three team members unless dire emergencies exist.
- On glaciers, team members should remain roped and at a distance (30-5- feet) from one another, with no slack in the rope until they make a thorough safety check of the camping area. Mark boundaries and consider them sacred on all crevasse fields.
(Dougherty, Neil J. IV. Mountaineering Safety. Outdoor Recreation Safety.
