caspermeister
01-22-2004, 05:57 PM
A Good Way to Lose Subscribers...
LONDON (*******) - A hiking magazine apologized on Thursday after it published a route plan that would have sent walkers striding into thin air off the north face of Britain's largest mountain, Ben Nevis.
The magazine, Trail, missed out a vital bearing needed to guide climbers off the summit of the Scottish mountain in bad weather.
Anyone who had followed the magazine's directions would have plunged down a sheer cliff into nearby Gardyloo Gully.
Editor Guy Procter, himself a keen hillwalker, said that Trail published 200 routes every year and had never made a similar mistake before.
"I should have picked it up at the final proofreading stage, but unfortunately it slipped through," he told *******. The error was spotted by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, which published a warning about the "dangerous bearing" on their Web Site.
Procter said he was confident his readers always carried maps while hill-walking and would therefore immediately notice the error.
LONDON (*******) - A hiking magazine apologized on Thursday after it published a route plan that would have sent walkers striding into thin air off the north face of Britain's largest mountain, Ben Nevis.
The magazine, Trail, missed out a vital bearing needed to guide climbers off the summit of the Scottish mountain in bad weather.
Anyone who had followed the magazine's directions would have plunged down a sheer cliff into nearby Gardyloo Gully.
Editor Guy Procter, himself a keen hillwalker, said that Trail published 200 routes every year and had never made a similar mistake before.
"I should have picked it up at the final proofreading stage, but unfortunately it slipped through," he told *******. The error was spotted by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, which published a warning about the "dangerous bearing" on their Web Site.
Procter said he was confident his readers always carried maps while hill-walking and would therefore immediately notice the error.