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was he German? they love going hiking in sandals, and then need to get rescued from mountains.
why does anyone go into the desert with flip flops?
No, the Belgian man was not German.
But he may have spoke German. I'll allow it.
Are you sure?
Humans seem to have a special mental gap when it comes to mountains. It's warm and sunny so they go up in flip-flops and tiny short shorts, but on the actual mountain it's freezing cold and often raining and they require rescuing because at some point they either fall over due to trying to wander around in what are essentially plastic slippers, or they're too cold and they can't carry on.
We know that the temperature drops as you go up and yet somehow that seems to fail to register for people.
As an American scout, it's also been funny talking to my friends years after the kind of things you take for granted. I had a friend that took a bunch of people up a moderate hike, but they wound up in what could have very easily turned into a not moderate fuck up. I've never really considered myself a "survivalist", but I was seriously in error in assuming people knew the basics.
Yeah. Even completely safe hikes, like even a flat and level trail in your neighborhood can turn into a survival situation if you trip and fall and hurt yourself. If you break something in your leg, you'll have to hobble or crawl your way to help. If you hit your head, you could fall unconscious or even die outright if you hit it just right.
In the 80s, and I was 7, we went to Italy and my parents and I went up Mount Etna and I was wearing flip-flops, making it pretty much impossible to walk up a bunch of lava rocks without them slipping off and cutting my feet. My parents only thought I was complaining about the walk until my mother looked down and saw my feet bleeding.
I haven't been a big fan of them since.
Don't you think it's time to forgive your parents?
Never.
As a former child and current parent: no.
Not even a similar story, but a similar result. As a kid in Vegas in the summer on vacation wearing flip-flops with my feet soaking wet from the various water fountain things. I got blisters, bad. Never been into sandals or flip-flops ever since.
Belgian, so I'm surprised they were sensible enough to wear any kind of footwear
Swamp German
I always thought of Belgians as being swamp French. It's the Dutch who are swamp Germans.
Burn.
Like sand.
Sandals and flip flops are very different things for walking.
There are awesome hiking sandals that provide excellent support, grip, and all. But flip flops? Oof.
I've had the misadventure of having to do a small jungle trek with flip flops (my super duper fancy hiking shoes were soaking wet). I managed but it wasn't ideal. The Australian rainforest is not exactly flip flop friendly.
I'm one of those special kinds of idiot where I pride myself on my ability to traverse any terrain in my thongs (flip flops).
The kinds of things they do and the places they go in thongs in South-East Asia. It's humbling.
Sand = beach