cavegirly said:
In that case, it would be helpful if the poll had an option on the lines of 'no-one/nothing is to blame'. At the moment we are being invited to blame either the weather or the 'colage'.
But what is the point of the poll? Most of us don't know what happened. The press reports conflict with statements made by people who claimed to be there. We don't know what the experience of those in the group was, what the weather was like, what the forecast had said, what actually happened, indeed whether anyone's lives were in fact in danger.
We've already had, in another incident, the national press quoting Alfred Wainwright as a caving authority. I'm not sure that it's any more sensible to ask a random group of cavers, many of whom don't know the cave in question, let alone what happened on this occasion, to pass judgement on this incident.