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- Sep 16, 2019
I remember this Chinese couple who was in my tour group while hiking Athabasca glacier. The guide was very strict and specific about following his path exactly while hiking up the glacier, especially in the snow. He warned that if you fall in a hole or you deviate off the safe path you were almost guaranteed to die from either the fall or hypothermia if the fall didn't kill you. This Chinese couple, especially the guy did not pay attention at all during this lecture and I often saw him a couple hundred yards away from the rest of the group. The last straw for the guide was when the guide was able to let us look in a hole that formed in the glacier. He only let us look in it one at a time and he had to hold us so we didn't fall in. The hole was easily a couple hundred feet deep and this Chinese tourist just wanders up to the side while the guide is holding someone else. The guide just yanked the guy away from the hole grabbed him and unloaded on him doing his best Gunnery Sergeant Hartman impression. The tourist eventually got the message and followed the group for a while but eventually kept wandering off.I remember some Chinese tourists when I visited Niagara Falls. The girl climbed over the railing keeping people from falling off the slippery wet cliff face down however many feet it is onto rock to take a selfie while her father nodded in approval.
Why do Chinese tourists have no sense of self-preservation?