by Chris Webber | Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
On 18 November 1987, a memorial plaque was placed on a wall along the walking path to the Three Sisters, close to the Echo Point Information Centre. It was inscribed in honour of the late Sergeant First Class A. E. ‘Ernie” Sanderson. As leader of the...
by Chris Webber | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
PP455-456 Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite has some interesting things to say about avoiding being lost and what to do if you are lost “You should never substitute GPS use for sound map and compass skills. Be sure you have competent map and compass skills and...
by Chris Webber | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Katoomba: Chris Webber today announced that the results of a new Freedom of Information (GIPAA) request show an increase of local bushwalker rescues by 9%, from 172 to 188 incidents. This rate of increase is about the same as it was when Mountains Mishaps: death, and...
by Chris Webber | Aug 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
To help keep “Mountains Mishaps” up to date, I’ve been reading “Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite”. This says some interesting things about Lost Person Behaviour regarding the difference between Adults and Children. “Young children...
by Chris Webber | Aug 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
TOURIST TRAGEDY : 4 KILLED AS BUS CRASHES 400 FEET – Search the Collection – National Film and Sound Archive At yesterday’s Historical Society Talk about Jenolan Caves I discovered that there is a newsreel of the 1962 incident where a bus going round...
by Chris Webber | Jul 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
One story I learnt today… November 25, 2014, A 22-year-old woman from Victoria was showing a couple of French visitors around the Blue Mountains when, at about 9pm, she decided to climb over the fence at Evans Lookout and meditate there. Unfortunately, when she...
by Chris Webber | Jul 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
We are lucky in this country to have sensible gun laws, so we don’t normally have to worry about being shot while in the great outdoors. Well, not normally, I was canoeing on a tributary of the Colo one day when shots rang out accompanied by some unintelligible...
by Chris Webber | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Caro Ryan talks to Joyce, who was bitten by a snake on Mt Solitary. Luckily Joyce was walking with a group and had the Emergency+ app on her phone. That meant she was flying out in a helicopter within an hour. This podcast illustrates why walking in a group, even in...
by Chris Webber | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the themes of “Mountains Mishaps” is that outdoor adventures in the local area are usually quite safe from human interference. I have found only two instances where a female bushwalker was attacked by a person unknown to them. On reviewing...
by Chris Webber | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
You may have heard of the guy who nearly died of renal failure after he was unable to get through the thick vegetation and ran out of water sitting next to the Coxs River on a hot day. He is an extremely experienced, confident and competent bushwalker and didn’t...
