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Disgraceful behaviour 19-Feb-2009 At 4:26:54 PM Li

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>I think it is VERY rich of you to describe people who are risking their
>live to save somebody as 'low'. Forget the CFA, the SES, the Ambos non
>of these people face as much risk as people performing high altitude mountain
>rescues (statistically anyway). Wake up to the realities of the situation.
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>Ok maybe your problem is the filming... So rescues are not allowed to
>be filmed? It is not clear why the guy was filming however maybe his role
>was to film the rescue. Should he stop filming just because the person
>being rescued is in difficulty? If Federico had survived it would have
>been great footage of somebody rescued from near death. Unfortunately this
>was not the case. Bt the cameraman was not to know this.
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>It seems to me the rescuers did their best to save him. Without a rescue
>stretcher or a heavy insulation to keep the guy warm then the BEST possibilty
>of Federico surviving was to get him moving. They tried to do this. Of
>course in hindsight things seems so easy to judge but at almost 7000m things
>get a bit tougher.

I haven't watched the video on principle. And for your information, I am äwake"to the realities of the situation. I completely understand that they were risking their lives to save this guy and I commend them for that, especially since they had to get him back up to the summit and back down the correct route. But as Jack said, they were victim recoverers not rescuers - and it probably put them out to now have to turn the recovery into a rescue. You would think that even though they were recoverers they would still have some kind of rescue equipment and oxygen with them. And where is the stretcher anyway? Wouldn't you need something to get the body down from the mountain? It seems they had nothing.

I can understand yelling at someone to GET UP! GET MOVING! But to call them an idiot is pretty derogatory and not necessary.,,but then, they were probably p*ssed off because they now had to attempt to rescue this guy. Still not necessary in a time of need.

As far as filming goes - I still think it's poor form and clearly wasn't intended for any constructive purpose other than to put it out to the public (which they achieved).