Properly insured with the recreational sports
helge 12th February 2010
Recreational Sports - beautiful, but dangerous, the statistics proves it - most accidents happen at home and at play. The leaders are sad accidents in skiing, paragliding, cycling, football games, sledding, hiking and mountaineering.
Accident in the mountains! Amazingly, an accident on hikes and mountain tours fewer climbers than hikers. This is probably due to a deliberate, planned use of the climber with him expected, potentially hazardous situation. The hobby-walking tourists from the plains in the summer in the mountains on the other hand, usually poorly equipped and / or undertrained, embarks on gebahnte only way in scenic surroundings of the supposedly poses no danger. The many volunteer rescue the mountain rescue service record, unfortunately, a different picture. The main cause is tripping and falling on footpaths, followed by crash after Versteigen in ungangbares Herz-/Kreislauf-Störungen terrain and because of physical overstrain.
Objective and subjective risks are. Call Besides the well objective dangers present in the mountains here, as weather and falling rocks, there are subjective hazards. Subjectively, because they in the human (mis) behavior is justified. An even innocuous-looking cross glaciers alone without safety ropes or impending thunderstorm worth a Gipel because of the beautiful mountain scenery to take still want to do is simply negligent.
For just in case! How can you protect yourself or at least make provisions? The completion of an accident insurance should be mandatory for sports enthusiasts. How fast can you slip on a steep mountain path, by mountain bike crash or be hit by a stone suddenly painful. The coverage of an accident insurance gives you the confidence to be prepared for sports in their leisure time compared to the objective risks and subjective risk ... anyone can eventually work itself. Have fun in your spare time in the mountains and wants ...
Sigmund Haider www.bergschreiber.com