Originally Posted By: hikermor


Note also that this is also a situation where a PLB would have been of questionable value.



I guess it may have helped if the victim would have deployed it the instant he realized he was in trouble. Although if he couldn't be rescued by air he was probably already a goner.

Of course, without realizing it, he was in danger the moment he agreed to take the trip with those two companions.
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