Who is at risk in the French mountains? Profiles of the accident victims in outdoor sports and mountain recreation

Lefèvre, Brice; Boutroy, Éric

doi:10.1007/s11629-016-4146-5

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“…The number of injuries was greater in the > 50-y-old age group and was associated with the highest risk of death (7 in NACA ICAR). 10 The authors of the study attribute this to demographic changes and increased popularity of the Mont Blanc region (referred by the authors as mass hiking). At the same time the French study group was overall older than the one in this article.…”

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Age and Sex Are Strongly Correlated to the Rate and Type of Mountain Injuries Requiring Search and Rescue Missions

Amarowicz

Kumorek²,

Boczon

2019

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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IntroductiondBecause of the growing popularity of mountain tourism, the number of injuries related to mountain activities has increased rapidly. The regional volunteer search and rescue team (Tatra mountain rescue team [MRT], Poland) anticipates future increases in injuries and accidents.MethodsdAn analysis was performed on Tatra MRT incident reports for the years 2012 through 2013. These reports include information on the mechanism of injury, weather conditions, and demographic data of the injured tourists. The data were provided by the operation supervisor of each search and rescue mission. The study group consisted of 844 reports (median age 37 y, range 18e90 y). The analysis was designed to determine whether features such as age and sex of the injured tourist were correlated to the injury mechanisms (as identified by the rescuers) or their National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics L International Committee for Alpine Rescue (NACA ICAR) score.ResultsdOur study of the Tatra MRT data revealed that age and sex are risk factors for the rate and severity of injuries in the mountain environment. Injured men were more likely to require resource-intensive search and rescue missions and usually had a worse NACA ICAR score (P¼ 0.041). The age analysis showed that older people are more likely to sustain a serious injury (3e7 NACA ICAR score). However, the most common rescue scenario involved younger males (20e40 y) at a higher altitude (>1500 m, P< 0.001).ConclusionsdSex and age are associated with the mechanisms and severity of injuries in the mountain environment. They should be considered in the development of appropriate prevention and response programs. Further studies are needed to confirm the results.

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Age and Sex Are Strongly Correlated to the Rate and Type of Mountain Injuries Requiring Search and Rescue Missions

Amarowicz

Kumorek²,

Boczon

2019

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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“…have already been analyzed in some depth in the literature [9,13,14], and accidents are more likely when people visit natural areas that they do not know well (due to inappropriate preparation, etc.). However, activities such as climbing are very different from others such as hiking, and when accidents occur, their consequences may include a wide range of injuries, or even death [59][60][61][62].…”

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Growth of Rescues in Natural Areas during the First Summer of COVID-19 Pandemic in Catalonia

Saladié

Gutiérrez

2021

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This article analyzes the impact of the end of the COVID-19 lockdown on the number of rescues in natural areas in Catalonia (Spain) during July and August 2020. We compared the figures for 2020 with those corresponding to the same period in 2016–2019, including their temporal and spatial distributions. Our findings show that the number of rescues undertaken by the Catalan Fire Department in July and August 2020 increased significantly compared to the same summer period in the four previous years (+39.7%). The daily averages increased for both weekends and weekdays in 2020, with 7.5 and 3.9 rescues per day, respectively. The greatest increase corresponded to rescue operations conducted at low altitudes (up to 500 m ASL) and areas with no specific protection status near to populated places. Natural areas were perceived safer than, for example, coastal destinations in terms of the risk of COVID-19 contagion, and they experienced a growth in visitors during the first summer of the pandemic. One consequence of this was an increase in emergency service activity to rescue people in natural areas. This research adds new evidence of the multiple indirect effects of the reconfiguration of mobilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings could be of interest to emergency service managers, managers of protected natural areas, and public authorities.

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“…Because of the focus on injuries, the meaning of extreme sports in the medical literature is quite broad ( Caine, 2012 ; Sharma et al, 2015 ; Laver et al, 2017 ; Caine and Provance, 2018 ), sometimes including activities such as horse riding and mountain biking ( Dodwell et al, 2010 ) as well as, e.g., parachuting and BASE jumping ( Feletti et al, 2017 ); skiing and snowboarding ( Graves et al, 2013 ; Frühauf et al, 2017 ); surfing ( Pikora et al, 2012 ; Klick et al, 2016 ); kiteboarding and related sports ( Feletti and Brymer, 2018 ; Morvan et al, 2018 ); whitewater rafting and kayaking; and climbing and mountaineering ( Soulé et al, 2017a , b ). This is logical from a medical perspective, since injury rates from horse riding and mountain biking are indeed high, both in total and per capita ( Ekegren et al, 2018 ).…”

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To Analyze Thrill, Define Extreme Sports

Buckley

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Emotions are a signaling system, evolved by providing selective advantage through enhanced survival and reproduction. The selective advantage conferred by thrill or exhilaration, however, remains unknown. Hypotheses, as yet untested, include overcoming phobias or honing physical skills as juveniles, or exhibiting desirability during mate selection. Extreme sports can provide an ethically and experimentally feasible tool to analyze thrill. To use this tool, extreme sports must first be defined in a non-circular way, independent of participant psychology. Existing concepts, from different disciplines, focus, respectively, on drama, activity types, or consequences of error. Here, I draw upon academic and popular literature, and autoethnographic experience, to distinguish extreme from adventurous levels for a range of different outdoor sports. I conclude that extreme outdoor adventure sports can be defined objectively as those activities, conditions, and levels, where participant survival relies on moment-by-moment skill, and any error is likely to prove fatal. This allows us to examine the motivations, experiences, and transformations of individuals who undertake these activities. In particular, it will allow us to examine the emotional experience of thrill, previously studied principally as an aspect of personality, from new neurophysiological and evolutionary perspectives.

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Who is at risk in the French mountains? Profiles of the accident victims in outdoor sports and mountain recreation

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Age and Sex Are Strongly Correlated to the Rate and Type of Mountain Injuries Requiring Search and Rescue Missions

Age and Sex Are Strongly Correlated to the Rate and Type of Mountain Injuries Requiring Search and Rescue Missions

Growth of Rescues in Natural Areas during the First Summer of COVID-19 Pandemic in Catalonia

To Analyze Thrill, Define Extreme Sports

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