Quote from some ancient predecessor of Walking Forum......
Up on Haystacks at the weekend, the weather was absolutely terrible, cold, windy and chucking it down. I met this old chap at the top, sheltering behind a rock. Don't know what he was thinking, he was just dressed in old tweeds, absolutely soaking wet, trying to write something in a notebook but his hands were obviously too cold to hold the pen properly. I asked if he had any waterproof gear with him, and he said he hated plastic macs, they just blew around in the wind. I asked him his name, and I think he said something like Wainwright, but I couldn't hear properly, he was mumbling, obviously in the early stages of hypothermia and losing the plot, even his pipe was upside down! I offered him help to get safely down to the valley, and he was really quite rude, so in the end I left him to it.
I hope he got down ok, but really anyone so obviously ill-equipped and inexperienced shouldn't be allowed on the hills!