On and On this goes, one of the nastiest threads (in all its various mutations) on this board in the years its been running.
Part of the origin lies in a dispute between a team running an expedition that hired one of the lead protagonists in this mountain of vilification, and that person's performance on the job that the team stated that they were not satisfied with. That fact does rather colour his response, and yet this is ignored. That might be the more understandable if it were not for allegations that he also seems to have further alleged 'history' as regards his performance, with some participants of a subsequent rally through Africa he organised alleging several deficiencies in the way it was run.....
If the protagonist in so much of what has followed was minded to, and was advised he had a case to do so, he could have sued the TCT organisation, or the person herself, for breach of contract and that, arguably, would have been a fairer route than this never ending campaign, but, as far as I am aware, he has not. That has to say something about it all.
Just occasionally a contrarian view can perhaps be put. There is a real case that the LAA membership restore this award - it is of course now superseded by subsequent recipients. This has the makings of a saga that will not stop, unsurprising when what is at stake is the utter evisceration of personal reputations. There has to be a time to draw a line under this, and now is that time.
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