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Well,
This was originally posted in the Landscape forum because it had much more relevance to our kind of photography over there. I had originally posted a response but then deleted it when it was moved here because this audience is completely different. It may even be true that many general photographers have never even set foot in the great outdoors. However, certainly tragedies like this are valid reminders that accidents happen, it's not a "Darwin" award. More correctly a brief moment of unthinking, a lapse of judgment on the part of the victim, something that can be absolutely unforgiving by mother nature - that you might have got away with in a more "civilized" environment.
I could fill a thread with all the tragic accidents that happen here in Moab in our back country. There were so many that they quit putting them in the paper for a long time so as not to scare tourism. People fall off cliffs, get stuck in quicksand, develop hypothermia or hyperthermia and die. They get their hands stuck under rocks in slot canyons, get bit by animals, snakes, spiders, scorpions. They flip their ATV's and dirt bikes breaking backs and necks. Stuff happens. And it isn't because they are of lesser intelligence than the average member here. $hyt happens with people.
So, like I said, this was originally posted in landscape where perhaps it was more appropriate audience. Others may not appreciate the reminder regarding real dangers that exist.
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