One of the saddest of my SAR experiences involved an all night trek on snowshoes to reach a solidly frozen corpse who had been abandoned by his two companions when he became exhausted and could go no further. They just retreated and left him to his fate.
I had to relate all this to his brother.
That's hard to fathom!

It's one thing to refuse to sacrifice your life for a friend but to refuse to be inconvenienced?!
