North Shore Rescue as I understand has an excellent and well deserved reputation*. For them to leave someone on the slope all night to ponder the error of their ways, may send a signal that yes, in some weather conditions and locations they do refuse rescues. Good wake up call.
It is not about sending a signal or leaving someone to ponder the error of their ways. Simple fact of the matter is, those lost skiers were in an extreme risk area and without daylight and good weather, NSR did not want to put their own members at extreme risk. I applaud them for having to make a difficult decision like this and that there was a good outcome at the end.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
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