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Risk Management, Accidents and Close Calls

National Park Fatality Statistics

American Alpine Institute
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If you get onto the wrong side of outdoor YouTube or outdoor TikTok, you’ll start to believe that the biggest hazard in the outdoors are monsters like windegos, skinwalkers, bigfoots or ghosts. The second biggest hazard is other people. And the third biggest hazard are animals like bears and cougars.

Obviously, legendary monsters are not a concern. There is an argument to be made that other people and certain animals create hazard. But the statistics do not support that these are primary hazards. Instead, it’s things like drowning and falling.

Check out the following video on the topic…

–Jason D. Martin

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