Should Females Not Climb Korea’s Mountains Alone?
That is what one elderly Korean woman warned a Youtuber recently hiking alone on a mountain:
A video of a middle-aged woman warning a female YouTuber who climbed the mountain alone, saying, “You shouldn’t come to the mountain alone,” is a hot topic online.
On the 27th, a number of online communities posted an article titled “A lady advising a female YouTuber who climbs alone.”
This article is a compilation of a video filmed by YouTuber “A Million Songhee in the Mountain” with 280,000 subscribers at Samaksan Mountain in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, on the 25th of last month.
At that time, YouTuber 1 million Song-hee said, “There are really no people today,” and “It’s a little scary because it’s been a long time since I’ve experienced this.”
Meanwhile, a middle-aged woman A, whom she encountered, began to tell a million Song-hee how dangerous it was to climb a mountain alone.
A said, “My friend was supposed to go with me, but I had a puncture, so an old lady went to the mountain alone,” and “A man sexually harassed and died on the spot.” It’s been about five years,” he told a million Songhee about what happened in the past.
Maeil Kyeongchae
You can read more at the link, but I think the dangers of hiking alone for females is overstated. There is probably more risk having a fall or medical emergency than someone hiding in the woods to kill you.
You shouldn’t climb the mountain alone, period. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman or a man. Any kind of emergency can happen, and with no backup, you’re in trouble. It’s common sense. Many of Korea’s rural areas are emptying of people as the old peoples who remained, all dieing off one by one. Towns, villages, and cities are bleeding people, as the number of empty abandon homes outside of Seoul, explode in numbers.
“You shouldn’t climb the mountain alone, period. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman or a man. Any kind of emergency can happen, and with no backup, you’re in trouble. It’s common sense. ”
Good advice.
Don’t climb mountains alone.
Don’t sit around in a flooding tunnel.
Don’t wait below deck in a capsizing ship.
Don’t go into large crowds with no exit plan.
Did you have any more common sense?