ipl-logo

Case Note On Blackburn Vs. Golden And District Search And Rescue

1013 Words5 Pages

Blackburn v. Golden and District Search and Rescue, RCMP, and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort. By: Austin Pigeon March 2017 Part 1: In the case between Gilles Blackburn (plaintiff) and Golden Search and Rescue, RCMP, and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (defendants), Blackburn took the three defendants to the BC Supreme Court and sued each of them for negligence for not commencing a rescue, which lead to the death of his wife, Marie-Josée Fortin (Petrovics, 2011). Blackburn claims that between February 17 and 21, 2009, all three of the defendants were aware of SOS signals Blackburn had stomped into the snow in the mountains surrounding Golden, British Columbia. On February 15, Blackburn and Fortin had decided to venture out of bounds to backcountry ski. They eventually got lost and at the time, they had only prepared for a day trip so they only had two granola bars, no water, no matches, no backcountry skiing equipment (climbing skins, avalanche transceivers, avalanche probes, avalanche shovels, backpacks, compass, GPS, radio, or mobile telephone), and only had what they were wearing to keep them warm and dry (Petrovics, 2011). Blackburn told officials that at one point he was following a riverbend and fell through into knee deep, freezing water and he had to keep wolves away while he and his wife awaited rescue. …show more content…

The resort then reported it to Golden Search and Rescue who didn’t launch a ground search due to no reports of overdue skiers and no evidence of anyone

Show More
Related

  • How Did Frank Morris And The Anglin Brothers Trying To Escape Alcatraz?

    613 Words  | 3 Pages

    Also in the video Did Frank Morris Survive, it says that if the raft they made out of raincoats didn't last they would die suddenly, thirty minutes after it let them down. They would die from hypothermia because of the cold temperatures averaging 50-55 degrees fahrenheit. There was also very strong currents that would wash them away or drag them down.

    Read More

  • Rhoda Vs. Avery Case Study

    303 Words  | 2 Pages

    Hilary Rhoda 's fiancé, who is a former New York Rangers hockey player, Sean Avery, was arrested in Southampton Village on Wednesday, just ten days before their wedding day. The 35 year old player was charged with criminal mischief and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance after he was found carrying acetaminophen and oxycodone during the arrest. According to E!

    Read More

  • Case Study: Burwell V. Hobby

    1454 Words  | 6 Pages

    Business Law Case Study Essay: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 573 U.S (2014) Facts: The Green family runs and owns Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts and skills chain that has over 500 stores and they have over 13,000 employees. Other facts of the case are that the Green family has been able to organize the business around the values of the Christian faith and has explicitly expressed the desire to run the company as told by Biblical principles, one of which is the belief that the utilization of contraception is wicked. Also, the facts show that under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), occupation -founded group health care plans must offer certain sorts of preventative care, for example, FDA-accepted contraceptive approaches.

    Read More

  • Bethel Park: Legal Case Analysis

    933 Words  | 4 Pages

    Bethel Park is a small town in Western Pennsylvania about 25 minutes outside the city of Pittsburgh. The community is tightly knit and work together to make the community a better place. Recently, the citizens of Bethel Park have had conflicted opinions about moving the local magistrate building from inside the police station in the town to its own separate building still within the district lines. The new building is just outside a neighborhood in the town. The people of the community are worried that the move will cause criminals to be brought into their neighborhood and could disrupt the peace that the neighborhood is used to.

    Read More

  • Engine 9 Research Paper

    1420 Words  | 6 Pages

    The night crew was Caleb Waters,Luke Will,Chuck Baker,and Brian Roberts of Engine 9. The day shift crew was Buck Rogers,Chad Harris,Lewis Clark and Ben Hampton of Engine 9. The night shift crew was bet from running calls all night and at five minutes before shift change and they decided not sleep because they knew as soon as they tried to sleep the alarm would sound again.

    Read More

  • Lake Huron Map Description

    1111 Words  | 5 Pages

    Right at the beginning of this century a map was produced that had been commissioned by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe just before he retired in 1796. Although no lakes appear north of the Severn River the details of Lake Simcoe, the Severn River and the southern parts of Georgian Bay itself are a great improvement over any before it. The stage had been set for moving north into native land. Captain Henry Bayfield surveyed Georgian Bay and the bay of Parry Sound in 1822 giving many of the modern names to the bays and islands he found including the name Georgian Bay after King George IV. The War of 1812 between British North America and the young United States prompted effort on the behalf of the British to secure its holding.

    Read More

  • Joe Simpson Research Paper

    693 Words  | 3 Pages

    Imagine hanging from a single rope with at least hundreds of meters of snow and ice cliffs underneath you and then rope is cut…! This is what Joe Simpson experienced and so class and Ms Connors, today I will explain the incredible survival story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates and what help them survive. In 1984 on the 6,400 meters peak of the Siula Grande Mountain Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were not in a good situation. Joe Simpson, at the time 24 years old, had broken his right leg in a bad fall, leaving Simon Yates, then 21, with the incredibly hard job of getting himself and his injured climbing companion off the mountain alive.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Everett Vs Rogers

    218 Words  | 1 Pages

    The efforts Edina Broward made to research about her stolen painting will probably considered as diligent efforts which prevent statute of limitation from starting to run. Ms.Broward tried to find her stolen painting by many means. First of all, The police was notified by her as well as a private investigator was hired to help to find the stolen painting. Similar to Everett v. Rogers, where the owner of stolen painting informed the police and was going to hire private investigator.

    Read More

  • Sherwood V Walker Smith Co Summary

    1418 Words  | 6 Pages

    There is a famous American case involving the sale of a cow called "Sherwood v. Walker-Smith Co. " This case, also known as the "Case of the Red Cow," took place in 1887 in Michigan. It is indeed considered a landmark contract law case. In Sherwood v. Walker-Smith Co., the plaintiff, Mary Sherwood, purchased a cow from the defendant, Walker-Smith Co., for $80.

    Read More

  • Argumentative Essay 'Cost Of Survival'

    501 Words  | 3 Pages

    The author gave evidence from news story rescue missions in 2014. Speaking of, a family that was vacationing nine-hundred miles from the coast of Mexico, when their child became very ill, explaining that this rescue mission took extreme measures like; the “US Navy, Coast Guard, and the California Air National Guard,” (126) to add to this the author voiced another story, about a caver that was 4,000 feet underground, when a rock fell and struck him, keep in mind that this “took rescue

    Read More

  • Nando Parrado Struggle In Chile

    773 Words  | 4 Pages

    Eight of the initial survivors died on the afternoon of 29 October when an avalanche cascaded down on them as they slept in the fuselage. For three days they survived in an appallingly confined space since the plane was buried under several feet of snow. Nando Parrado was able to poke a hole in the roof of the fuselage with a metal pole, providing ventilation. Among the dead was Liliana Methol, wife of survivor Javier Methol. She had been the last surviving female passenger.

    Read More

  • People Should Not Travel The Klondike Alone

    1687 Words  | 7 Pages

    Takeyce Taylor Winter in Alaska is known to be extremely cold, so it is always warned that people should not travel by themselves especially when the temperature hits fifty degrees below zero. Even though an old timer from Sulpher Creek warned him, that he should not travel the Klondike alone, a man set off on a journey with his husky wolf dog to meet up with some friends. When he started the journey he was excited, and as a newcomer in the Yukon, the cold did not faze him at all. As he got further into the journey he realize that he was not protected enough to withstand the cold, but the anxiety he had within, he didn’t pay much attention to it. Not knowing how dangerous of a situation he was putting himself into, along with his dog, he was just focused on meeting up with his friends.

    Read More

  • Dyatlov Pass Research Paper

    780 Words  | 4 Pages

    Avalanches are very common in this area and could have quite possibly happened while they were camped out. An avalanche would of caused panic to the hikers and would explain why the tent was cut opened from the inside and was covered in snow. An avalanche would also explain why the remaining four hikers that had taken a few months to find were buried under about four meters of snow. Along with proving why there was flesh embedded into the bark of a tree along with branches being broken up to five meters high. This suggests that they were climbing up this tree to escape the avalanche and from being buried to

    Read More

  • Robert Hall's To Blame In Into Thin Air

    692 Words  | 3 Pages

    The book Into Thin Air is a book that outlines the Mount Everest disaster, as factually correct it can. However, there is a person that is too blame for this disaster to happen. The main person responsible for the deaths of the Mount Everest disaster was Robert Hall. However, that does not mean Robert Hall was the only one at fault. Ultimately the blame falls on Ang Dorje, Robert Hall, and Ian Woodall, each for their own reasons, and ultimately Hall, and Fisher were responsible for the others.

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: Realization Of Death

    784 Words  | 4 Pages

    Realization of Death Have you ever witnessed death? To me, seeing death, before your own eyes is the most “eye opening” experience that you can ever have. I have only witnessed this once within my lifetime and it was the passing of somebody I never knew. Seeing this man’s final demise has scarred me. It has given me a whole new outlook on life.

    Read More

More about Case Note On Blackburn Vs. Golden And District Search And Rescue

Open Document