Two Swiss mountain guides who lost half of their clients in an avalanche on Jungfrau were acquitted of any fault. They were guiding a group of 12 Swiss soldiers up a 4,158-meter peak in the Bernese Alps when an avalanche they triggered pulled away 6 soldiers and deposited them 1,000 meters down the mountainside. This actually happened back in 2007, and a year later their military lost five soldiers in a rafting accident on the Kander River.
This brings up a lot of heavy ethics questions about how much guides are really responsible for protecting their clients, but what I’m more interested in is the Swiss Military. Climbing Jungfrau? Rafting the Kander? Sounds like a pretty good military outfit to join.
ByRocky Thompson
The Jungfrau accident was in fact a training day thing, while Kander wasnt permitted by superiors and somehow ordered and lead by the coy commander himself. in fact, to compare those two “accidents” doesnt answer any questions. Jungfrau was in order to teach military mountain experts/specialists their daily business, then again Kander was leisure activity. Overall, never forget that swiss army is a reservists army. we dont have regular soldiers, what actually doesn’t excuse what happened anyways.
Keep in mind, that swiss army has lost less soldiers the past 100 years than huntsmen got killed in accidents in our country…
Probably because everyone was intimidated by the funcitonality of your knives.