STRANDED UNIVERSITY CLIMBING GROUP RESCUED|不顧巡山員建議 淡江登山隊受困大霸尖山 昨晨獲救

A group of students and their teacher on Jun 2nd set off to climb one of the nation's tallest mountains, despite deteriorating weather and being advised not to do so. The team was soon stranded after heavy rainfall triggered landslides. Thankfully all of them were found and rescued yesterday morning. 15 backpackers from Tamkang University were guided by rescuers. Those students and teacher planned to climb Dabajian Mountain but were stranded only a few hours later. A forest patrol once advised them not to go further due to heavy rain forecast, but the team decided to go on. ==CHEN CHEN-TA Director, Guanwu Station of Shei-pa Nat'l Park Headquarters== Our staff did advise him, but simply that was not yet the time to restrict backpackers; therefore it was not mandatory. We had no way to restrict them from entering the mountain. They assessed that it's OK to continue their journey, so they went in. The park headquarters stated, they only could make restriction when land typhoon warning issued by the authority, therefore they will not impose fine to those backpackers, but they will have to pay for relevant costs. Taichung City is promoting a self-regulation for mountain climbing activities, all rescue-related costs shall be paid by climber's insurance company, for a maximum amount of NT$1 million. ==HSIAO HUAN-CHANG Director, Taichung Fire Bureau== If a person has no insurance for climbing, that person may have to pay for rescue-related costs. But first, it must involve with illegality and some particular mountain areas. It's not all the mountains that we are referring to. Director Hsiao said, dispatching a rescue helicopter costs NT$100,000 to NT$200,000 per hour, plus the cost of ground rescuers. He emphasized that the self-regulation does not aim to restrict people, but rather to decrease costs associate with a rescue mission. TRANSLATED BY: ANTHONY LIN 淡江大學一支由老師帶領的15人登山隊，2號不顧雪霸國家公園巡山員的建議，堅持入山攀登百岳之一的大霸尖山，沒想到當天下午，山區多處坍方，登山隊受困山區待救，直到今天上午，才被搜救隊救下山，不過這次不是發布颱風警報，所以雪霸國家公園無法開罰。 淡江大學這支由老師帶領的15人登山隊，原本打算攀登大霸尖山，但2日上午才入山，下午就受困山區待救，其實他們剛入山時，雪霸國家公園巡山員曾建議他們不要上山，因為氣象局已對苗栗山區發布大雨特報，不過登山隊仍然選擇入山。 ==雪霸國家公園觀霧管理站主任 陳振達== 工作人員有跟他勸導 那勸導因為簡單來講 它還沒到那個(管制)標準的時候 就沒有強制力 因為他還沒到強制的地步 所以我們沒有辦法 禁止他入山入園 等於是他們評估認為OK 所以他們進去 雪霸國家公園表示，只有發佈陸上颱風警報才會禁止入山入園，所以這次不會開罰，搜救成本則是相關單位自行吸收，而目前台中市推動的「登山活動管理自治條例」，在未違法登山的情況下，未來搜救費用將可由民眾購買的登山保險來進行支付，最高可給付100萬元。 ==台中市消防局長 蕭煥章== 如果說他沒有(登山)保險 可能要面臨到 自費搜救費用的一個問題 當然這個要牽涉到違法啦 當然是牽涉到一些特定山域 不是說所有的山 我們都是一定要這麼做 蕭煥章表示，光是直升機出勤救援，一小時的費用就高達10到20萬元，其它地面搜救人員的費用還要另外計算，他也強調，登山自治條例並不是要限制民眾登山的自由，而是要減少搜救成本。 邱植培 賴世杰 中部綜合報導