im gonna agree with this 100%...its an area your totally unfamiliar with, obviously your not someone who is extremely competent at navigation, its below freezing, snowing, and your poorly dressed.....

what say we leave the road wich is bound to go somewhere and follow a drainage ditch...not what i call a smart move

 

freezing to death is like falling asleep as far as i know.

and dammit, that really, really sucks that he's dead.

and it pissed me off that the family was celebrating after the mother and kids were found, yet the father was still missing. it was not time to celebrate yet. and now this.. :sad:

apparently you somehow know the topography of the entire area over there. too bad it wasn't you over there then, i guess.

 

well, we all live to die....

 

basic survival training is if your unfamiliar with the area, stay put! i dont know how many times over the years in scouts and going west hunting this has been repeated to me.

this is also very much a common sense item. lets think about this. family is on their way somewhere, gets lost, gets stuck. someone will come looking/ his best bet would have been to stay with the vehicle that provided some protection from the elements.

i had an uncle get lost on top of a mountain once and the only thing that saved him was he stayed put and waited for someone to come.

 

Read the fucking article and you will see the same thing I did. It said he walked down the road then left the road down a drainage culvert.

Now everything I have ever known and seen says you always stay with the road if there is one and you always follow the natural curve of the road. If there is a river next to the road then walk downstream.

We are not talking rocket science here we are talking common sense in a survival situation. The consequences of failure are not something so easy as hitting the start button again, instead you pay with your life as happened here.

Of course the guy was from SF so maybe he had never been more than 5 feet from a bus stand and had no common sense. Too bad his family will now pay the price in pain from his death for his stupidity.

 

I will quit posting bullshit in this thread

 

this threads about to get oogly

 

he did stay put.. remember that they were missing since Nov. 25. he took off on Saturday (Dec. 2) to look for help.

that means that they were potential stuck and in the same place for 7 days without seeing a soul. do you think that maybe he decided that he didn't want to watch his family die right in front of him?

this man should be respected, not ridiculed. he gave his life in trying to save his family. it's only unfortunate that all he had to do was wait for a few more days, but how could he know? they had seen no one for a week!

you have no idea what he was thinking, except maybe, "i want my family to live", so stop pretending that you do.

 

dont let it stop there h:

:hsugh:


but dood, thats rough

 

http://news.com.com/James+Kim+found+...?tag=cnetfd.mt