Great entertainment at the campsite is sharing “hiking disaster” stories.
A new blog — inspired by Touching the Void — documents them.
This blog is about learning from other people’s mistakes, so you don’t make the same ones.
Some sample posts:
original – flickr – justinbaeder
(via Two-Heel Drive)
I’ll send in my own worst hiking experience: lost and hypothermic in the Andes
besthike.com 
You Andes excursion as well as breaking the “don’t drop your pack” rule also breaks the “don’t explore late in the day” rule, which seems to get a lot of people into trouble.