dee_legg wrote:north-north-west wrote:Ordinary members of the public have no duty of care to complete strangers who put themselves in danger.
All this "they didn't try hard enough" bull. They were there, you weren't. They could assess the dangers of attempting assistance/rescue in the prevailing condition, you can't. It is not possible to save everyone who goes bush without adequate preparation and equipment. We all have to accept that. Judging the people on the ground who did the best they could at the time and in the circumstances achieves nothing.
Dear NNW,
Thanks for being a voice of reason among all this should of/ would of/ what if nonsense.
potato wrote:The legal system is far from perfect and I wonder if the coroner has even been to the site. Extreme weather conditions also means different things to different people. As discussed before, the individual rejected assistance in a hypothermic state.
Key to my concerns is that this all happened approximately 1200m from the hut. Many of us here know that part of the walk very well and it puzzles me that no one went back from the hut to assist. As I've suggested before, perhaps its the case that people don't know what hypothermia looks like.
I'm not blaming anyone for this as I see this as a very unfortunate incident.
north-north-west wrote: assistance was offered and refused, but he would already have been hypothermic at that point and not thinking clearly.
north-north-west wrote:It can be difficult to assess hypothermia, particularly in someone you don't know.
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