I really hope that if there are people in hospital fighting for their lives that they pull through.
I'm surprised by the vitriolic tone of some of the discussions about the unceertainty and rumours of deaths.
If however, there is spin put on any tragedy that might have played out in Paarl it will be the worst display of corporate @sscovering I've ever seen. There is something very paradoxical to me about a corporate entity organising a mountin bike ride - then I remind myself that the entry fee is what it is.
The munga race documents basically say, I'm paraphrasing "What you've signed up for is a very dangerous thing. It's an extreme event, in extreme conditions, often hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest hospital and while there is ambulance support, you are likely to spend a lot of time alone in a dangerous environment. You may die. We'll try and make sure that doesn't happen but no guarantees."
It's honest.
Evasion of responsibility is built into the corporate model - it's a legal individual comprised of many individuals all of whom abdicate their personal responsibility and invest it in the collective. Is part of what you pay for with your 120k the right to make someone else responsible for your safety, and to what extent is that legally enforcable? And morally?
