Originally Posted By: Phaedrus
If I remember correctly (another interview published at the time) he didn't consider himself "lost", just a bit delay, and didn't expect anyone to be out looking for him.

Hm, that requires a different view -- if I was just fashionably late but not in distress, and not likely to be, I might just ignore the phone. Though if I had a signal I would probably fire a note to my emergency contact to avoid triggering a whole lot of unnecessary search activity.