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In defence of the ‘unaccounted for’ life

Those ‘lost’ mountain marathon runners could look after themselves. Read Mick Hume in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics

Tuesday 28 October:

‘I don’t know much about fell running, but I know what I don’t like – the sensationalised scaremongering surrounding the washed-out mountain marathon in the Lake District. The overreaction revealed less about the risks facing the runners than the risk of us walking into a society where nobody is allowed to be “unaccounted for”…’

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