Low shoe tourist
As low shoe tourists to pejoratively referred mostly inexperienced tourists who walks in the mountains or the high mountains without proper equipment, such as sturdy shoes or protective clothing in case of sudden weather fall , business.
The name is derived from the fact that these hikers are often out and about in low shoes or sandals , which provide little support on stony, steep and narrow paths or on rocks and scree , which regularly leads to injuries to the ankles and serious accidents from falls.
Mountain rescue organizations note, however, that insufficient equipment is less of a reason for mountain accidents today. Since even beginners often have good equipment today, the cause of alpine accidents is increasingly to be found in a lack of coordination and alpine experience.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Sack, Mountains for Beginners , Die Zeit 1967 No. 32, Zeit Online , accessed on November 25, 2011
- ↑ Website wissenswertes.at , accessed on November 20, 2011
- ^ Report by a mountain rescue worker in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2007 , accessed on November 20, 2011
- ↑ Edi Koblmüller, Bergunfall im Zeitenwandel ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB), Land der Berge 5/11, accessed on November 25, 2011
- ↑ More than 100 missions for the Tyrolean mountain rescue service , orf.at, accessed on November 25, 2011
