Interesting coverage of this year's OMM (Original Mountain Marathon) in the press, including the usual finger-pointing exercise to blame someone as the weather in Borrowdale turned truly atrocious.
But there have equally been some excellent retorts. The BBC 'everyone is a journalist so send us your stories' pages contain almost unanimous support of the organisers and and excellent article here argues eloquently that risk is the whole point of the sport. The best quote is this:
'I have yet to speak to a single competitor who felt that he or she had been the victim of an emergency. "You'd have loved it, Richard," one of them told me. "Incredibly violent conditions – but a true test of mountaincraft."'
