Mary-Anne Goosens: Am I Being Cynical?

I am not a natural cynic but after reading the account of a Dutch lady’s 18 day ordeal in the Nerja mountains (today’s El Pais) I am unconvinced of its truthfulness. Mary-Anne Goosens was ‘trapped between crags’ after clambering in to it.

She wasn’t disabled or injured. She told hikers who found her and offered to help her out of the gulley she was too weak to do so. I presume they wouldn’t have offered had they not thought she was capable of doing so. Maybe she was weak after 18 days she says she was in there but it takes fortitude to live in the open for so long without food; that fortitude had deserted her when the option to climb out was much less arduous.

It's lucky she didn't have to cut a limb off like the guy did when he fell down a crag a year or so ago in the States.  Like you I remain cynicall????

Yes it never ceases to amaze me, even in the UK they go potholing, mountain climbing etc. They fail to check weather reports are ill equipped putting  other peoples life's at risk. Which is another burden on the tax payer, should be made to take out adequate insurance.