Understanding The Difference Between RISKS and DANGERS in Climbing and Life

Every May, we make videos on the mental side of climbing and adventure in recognition of National Mental Health Awareness Month. This week, we are getting into a question I was asked about how I view risks verses dangers in climbing. Drawing heavily from my upbringing, I get into the importance of differentiating between risks, dangers, probabilities, and consequences and then apply those concepts to help us better mitigate risks.


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Our Mental Health Awareness Month series:
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This video uses a number of publicly available images:

Spent Fuel Pool: Simone Ramella from Rome, Italy, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Beaver Valley Cooling Towers: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Spent Nuclear Fuel: United States Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hotel Polisya in Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve: Jbuket, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Rope access worker: Mark Rankin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fire fighters: Official Navy Page from United States of America Mass Communication Specialist 2n/U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Power plant control room: Aniskov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons



0:00 Intro
0:07 Bumper
0:16 Mental Health Awareness Month
0:25 A Family History of Risk Management
0:49 Risk = Probability x Consequence
1:07 How We Get Stuck with Probabilities
2:39 Small-Event Chains Cause Many Accidents
4:21 The Control Trap
5:10 A Challenge
5:34 Outro


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