I hope that just because someone wants to do something a little risky we don't vilify him. Same with the most recent mountaineering loss.
As long as people have made sufficient preparations and have the required skills all the more power to them.
It's quite a different matter if there are unprepared or unskilled and then put SAR at risk.
Lot's of people have done the around the world solo and succeeded.
Remember there will always be a leading cause of death.
While reducing loss of life is admirable, it can be pushed to the absurd. It's that kind of thinking that caused a meatpacking plant to band Swiss Army Knives. Remember all the Urban/Office people who can't have anything that MIGHT be considered dangerous.

The real danger is that we become so risk adverse that we can't live for fear of loss.