Dear Sir,

My name is Mehrdad Shahlaie, 39 years old, married and has two children. I am interested in mountain climbing, the member of Damavand club, Tehran , Iran . I have ten years experience of mountain and rock climbing.

I am doing a research about the problem of mountain climbers' family. While they are away their family is worried about them. So, I have some questions about this subject and the effect of this to their relations. If you like, please answer them:

1. Is your family aware of the dangers of this field and if the answer is yes, do they try to stop you or persuade you to change your field or …?

2. Did you participate in any training course in your field, if the answer is yes, does your family know about this?

3. What is their opinion about the efficiency of your training course in your security? And if they think it is efficient, to what extent?

4. If your family becomes worried, what will they do? (call friends, police,…)

If you have any suggestions or opinions about this subject, I would be delighted to know. Thanks for your time and attention.

Yours Faithfully,

Mehrdad Shahlaie

Dingus Milktoast wrote:I would not put any personal information on the open pages of summitpost.org. Perhaps you can assist your friend with a better way to gather information.

DMT

peladoboton wrote:this needs to be on a secure website, and i bet a whole load of us would fill it out, and shower the dude with plenty of data.

mconnell wrote:I don't see that he is asking for any more information than I can get from looking at profiles here, or reading a few posts.

WouterB wrote:

peladoboton wrote:this needs to be on a secure website, and i bet a whole load of us would fill it out, and shower the dude with plenty of data.

Neghafi,

In two weeks time I might have time to help out with this, if you still need it.

1000Pks wrote:For me, most of these questions are irrelevant, they ask about family and training. I took a rock climbing course, as far as that goes, and had some Sierra Club experience. I wouldn't call most of that any training, as mostly they taught the wrong way to do things. As I more diplomatically say, "they showed us how not to do it."

If possible please answer his questions and also add some basic social information about yourself such as location, nationality, age, sex, single/married, educations (because I may not to know you).

Astute Net users will put themselves at risk giving personal information to strangers, it could be a scam or criminals, even, to use that knowledge against you. We all have no idea who this may really be, and for what purposes.

No offense meant, but secure online behavior suggests to ignore this post.

1000Pks wrote:A scientific poll or survey requires a random or representative sampling. Asking here in this fashion is none of that. Any responses would be like a TV, website, or newspaper poll, maybe with voting or answering many times by the same person. And then excluding answers or replies from most people, by its nature, who might normally be happy to help. You may wish to inquire with professional pollsters who do not work like this. There, you are selected at random and the responses judged accordingly.

Basic college training tells you this. Myself, I make the basic assumption here that many or all posters are not what they seem. I do not take SummitPost too seriously. As many or most will say, this is the Internet!