From the foregoing review of alpine accidents in 1950, it is clear, as it was in last year’s report, that there is still a need for more training of the inexperienced and young, and that this training must continue to be organized and actively carried out at the local club level. To be successful, such a program must also include a broad and healthily realistic public relations program outlining these dangers to the mass of outdoor enthusiasts. Any such publicity, however, must be presented so that it will not play up the sensational and thus result in merely swelling the ranks with those who might be seeking nothing else. Interested yet uninitiated persons, all of whom are potential victims of alpine accidents, must be approached in a careful and friendly manner. Then they may be most effectively introduced to the fundamentals and realities of “ mountaineering” before they begin climbing toward the heights equipped with little more than blind enthusiasm.