I would guess there was something else going on. Shock likely from being lost, or hypothermia, drugs etc. Too bad there wasn't a real SAR debriefing with the two, might have prevented tragedy.
Agreed. Thanks for giving them the benefit of the doubt. We forget to do that around here sometimes.
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