quite a few things scout related, 1, I think the idea from the scout movement of putting in someone like Bear is that the younger generation know of him, where as when I was a scout I had no idea who the chief scout was, it was some air marshall bloke.
reading the scout people post on facebook, some think he has done nothing wrong, whilst others who maybe activity based can see all that is wrong with what he has done.
whilst the tv programme is not scout related I would personally say for me he has damaged the image of scouting.
there has been many years since a scout was rescued from a cave yet the comments from at least one person here seems to suggest that all cave rescue are scouts, yet when we take young people caving (cant speak about every scout cave team) we take lots of precautions, the first one being getting a weather forecast.
And we have all slagged of bear on his maverick attitude, and I think a lot of it is rightly said, however none of knows apart from the cave experts on the day what was done/said, they well might have done a forecast, their risk assessment might have for them justified them going into long churn, carrying a hand torch and water rising, and their fee did not come into the decision making.