Safety in the mountains

The thesis entitled Safety in the mountains consists of a theoretical and empirical study part. The aim of this thesis is to inform parents and children about (un)safety in the mountains and to find out, what is the level of knowledge about aspects of safety in the mountains. We wanted to know whether the respondents go to the mountains and why, if they know all the necessary equipment, if they know the procedures for rescuing a casualty in the mountains, to what extent they know how to assess their physical and psychophysical abilities, whether they react correctly in the mountains, whether they in the event of bad weather, and if they know how the season affects accidents in the mountains. In the theoretical part, we started by focusing on mountaineering terminology, which consists of the most common words: excursion, hiking, mountaineering and mountaineering. This was followed by a brief description of mountaineering in Slovenia and the mountaineering programmes implemented in Slovenia. Then we more attention was paid to safety in the mountains, which includes all the necessary mountaineering equipment, food and drinks, weather, first aid and dangers in the mountains. In the last part of the theoretical part we wrote about the preparation of the trip and focused more on the content of the preparation of the trip in the pre-school period. The empirical part is divided into two parts: the preparation of children for a mountain trip and the analysis of the questionnaires. In the first part, the children were introduced to mountain topics, familiarised with life and behaviour in the mountains, and finally took a mountain hike to the old lime tree in Stirpnik. Parents were also involved and received a leaflet with all the necessary information. In the second part, I used a questionnaire to ask parents from all over Slovenia how familiar they are with safe movement in the mountains and whether they know the appropriate equipment and first aid procedures for first aid. 20 respondents took part in the survey parents from the Nogica group and 80 random parents from all over Slovenia. We have found that children look forward to the trip much more when they are involved in the preparation and If they are motivated during the excursion itself (elf tasks). However, we found that parents lack knowledge of mountaineering, which is also a consequence of the many accidents in the mountainous world. Parents' ignorance is the result of inadequate provision of information to the child