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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My heart aches for all the lives lost and their families. I hope that strict safety laws are put in place to prevent such accidents. [/quote]
What laws, exactly, do you think would have prevented this? They might try to prove criminal negligence by the guides, but that law already exists.[/quote]

+1. You can't keep people from venturing into the wilderness. [/quote]

Actually, there is one law that many people think would help. Guide pay would be required to be not dependent on tips - the cost of the trip would have to cover full guide compensation as well as enough additional to effectively cover trip cancellation insurance. That way, should the guide company cancel the trip for a safety/weather related reason, the guide and the company are still paid and clients are mostly whole by the travel insurance.

The financial incentives are very misaligned at this point and clients are not paying the true cost to operate the business. There is huge pressure to continue with a trip in dangerous conditions, as we saw. [/quote]

Wow—that is a great idea. And in orientation to the problem, remarkably similar to the conversation about Everest. The natural conditions cannot be controlled—all that may help are some disincentives to bad risk-taking by humans. [/quote]

Or maybe the pay is tied to bringing everyone safely back again. You don't get paid before the trip, but after.[/quote]

A lot of prep time goes into these trips. If a guide has to make a safety call to cancel while underway, that should not be penalized. The trip cancellation insurance is a far better idea.[/quote]

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