Quote Originally Posted by cyrille
Thailand has a way of rather quickly converting adrenaline into embalming fluid. Anyone taking up the pursuit of climbing under the 'guidance' of a local needs his head testing while it's still in one piece.
Literally hundreds and hundreds of people do it there every day, and the guides at these places do have the skillsets where beginning guiderope stuff really isn't a particularly ridiculous proposition.

The three tourists injured were all climbing without any guidance whatsoever FWIW