Last weekend, Gabriel Pessanha became news at TV Globo’s Fantástico, which showed the operation of his rescue of a crack in the descent of Pedra do Sino, in Serra dos Órgãos, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The operation, fortunately, had a happier outcome than the tragic case of Juliana Marins, who died in the fall of the Rijani volcano in Indonesia in late June. Gabriel left alive, with some scratches, thanks to the prompt performance of the Rio de Janeiro Firefighters, fired by his friend who descended with him and lost sight of him when he was startled by his steep descent, as he confessed to the station, and decided to look for another easier way. Did not find.
With the mountain season pumping around the country-the driest and fresh months of May, usually between May and September-have been multiplied by social networks videos showing very successful or unsuccessful adventurers worldwide. Even for those who have never called the subject, but followed Juliana’s tragedy, the algorithms took care to ensure that their accounts on social networks receive a real flood of climbing scenes and track trees in dramatic situations, when not fatal.
As an author of this column, I always found it natural to receive so many videos of varied perrengues. But from what I have heard and read from people who have never put their feet on a trail, they don’t even have the least idea of what a piolet or shit tube, the algorithmic attack is omnipresent and populates nightmares from those who are preparing to go around the nearest park.
Increased demand for this sports profile, added from the 2020 covid-19 pandemic, naturally enhanced the accounting of accidents and incidents in the wild. The videos that show abandoned bodies on the path that rises to the summit of Everest are annoying, many of which will never be rescued. And there is virtually daily news of groups of trees and mountaineers and adventurers who, as a pessanha, needed to trigger rescues in extreme risk situations, for reasons ranging from time to weather forecast to the lack of notion of those who think just throwing a backpack on the back to go up there. Not forgetting, of course, the wrong decisions in the most unfit -time, badly affecting experienced mountaineers.
But irresponsibility aside, it is never too much to appeal to some numbers that help to establish the proper perspective of the facts.
In Rio de Janeiro, the State Military Fire Department recorded 155 drives for rescue of people in forests, trails and forests, the same number registered in the same period of 2024.
In São Paulo, the state’s Fire Department advice reports that the corporation has already performed 134 ransom in forest since the beginning of the year, two more than last year. The annualized accounts record 242 occurrences in 2023, 226 in 2024 and will know how many will be until the end of 2025.
But does this mean that this is so absurdly dangerous to enjoy the most impressive views that nature offers us and that the columnist recommends staying at home in slippers? Of course. This only means that there are risks, yes, and that the activity requires experience, practice, appropriate equipment and good planning – preference with those who understand the subject.
Because not knowing that to cross a street you need to look both sides, the citizen doesn’t even get around the corner.
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