Delivering Adventure Managing Risk in Adventure with Grant Statham
What are some of the key strategies to managing risk while we are leading adventure and delivering it to ourselves? Grant Statham is back to continue this discussion with Jordy and Chris. Grant taps into his experience as a well respected thought leader on mountain risk and understanding. Grant is an ACMG / IFMGA mountain Guide, Parks Canada Visitor Safety Specialist, avalanche forecaster and a risk consultant.
Key Takeaways
List of options: A good decision is one where we pick the best option. Identifying all of the options beforehand, is a crucial step to making good decisions.
Understanding intuition: If you get a feeling that you should increase the risk, you need to be able to justify your decision to do so, with hard facts.
Avoiding overconfidence: Beware the expert opinion; often wrong, but rarely in doubt. We often think that we know more than we do, but we rarely want to admit this.
We can reduce our risk with knowledge: The more information we have, the easier it is to pick the best option.
Build yourself a buffer: Building in a bigger margin of error can protect us from mistakes, or simply misjudging a situation.
Slow down: Slowing down gives us more time to process the information coming at us.
Guest Links & Resources
Instagram: @stathamgrant
Ted talk on Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZu5Lzgv1A
Thinking in Risk: https://thepowdercloud.com/learn/avalanche-education/thinking-in-risk/
Avalanche Canada Ice Climbing Avalanche Atlas: https://www.avalanche.ca/resources/ice-climbing/atlas
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