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FWIW, it's nice to see a lessens learned from an actual SURVIVOR. It's also nice to see he survived because he planned ahead.

I suspect there will be some discussion here if he was prepared enough, and questioning the mistakes he made, but the in the end, even though he was only going to be gone for 30 mins, he took a PLB and a space blanket, both of which contributed to saving his life.

It's also nice to see him own up to his mistakes. It takes some guts to say to the world that you goofed up.


I agree 100%. We went over this in the last thread, but it is nice to get the story first hand from the survivor. It's really easy for us to be armchair quarterbacks and criticize (which is why I do it so often, because it's just so easy <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) but I do have a lot more respect for him after hearing the story from his point of view. He admitted the the mistakes he made, didn't try and point the blame somewhere else, and he learned from them. I'm glad the ending turned out the way it did.