Roles and Responsibility of Trekkers, Managers, Guides and Huts for Mountaineering Incidents as Viewed from Trekkers in Northern Japanese Alps

Abstract

Questionnaire surveys were conducted to grasp trekkers' attitudes toward responsibilities and roles that trekkers, managers, guides and mountain huts should be accountable for related to cause factors of mountaineering incidents. We dealt with altitude sickness; danger spots on mountain trails; route guidance; volcanic eruption; severe weather; information exchange about mountaineering safety; and near-miss factors. As a result, the responsibilities and roles that each stakeholder should have showed different tendency against each factor of incident. In each factor, the responsibilities and roles differed among stakeholders. it is necessary to develop a cooperative system among these stakeholders corresponding to the characteristics of the factor by further research.