Originally Posted By: ireckon
After all, we are talking about an unprecedented CPR effort that is likely to cause instruction manuals to be rewritten. Note that the rescuers spent some time with the girl before the rescue. They weren't strangers.


Fair enough.

It could be argued, in a broader sense, that wilderness travellers in (especially winter travellers) form a loose community or fraternity by their very nature. When you are far from official help and cell phone service, there is (I think) an unwritten rule that you help out as best you can -- because someday the dice may fall, and you may very well need help yourself. That's a set of shared values you won't necessarily find at a city bus stop.

Another consideration that may be of interest to you south-of-the-49th-ers is that British Columbia has Good Samaritan laws, which protect private citizens who try to render aid from lawsuits. http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_96172_01