So overall it sounds like he could have done a better job with a) the benefit of hindsight, b) a map and c) knowledge/experience of how to walk in snow in poor visibility. You can't plan for a). Having about 19 years of experience walking through bush offtracks I can say with a fair degree of certainity that having a map and even knowing how to use it doesn't guarantee that you wont get lost, particularly with poor visibility. And as for c) I have no specific experience so I will not comment, other than to say that we all start somewhere, it just seems that he got into the shit on his first effort. |