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I missed that she had that with her - that makes things even worse. Either he’s a weapons grade moron, or he planned that trip to kill her.

Helicopter rescue is a few thousand euros - and unless you have an insurance for that you have to pay that by yourself.

No idea if that was the case here - but it’d not be the first time that somebody refused rescue because of the cost.

Don’t go into the alps without experience - and make sure you have proper insurance. If you’re a member of the Alpenverein (as I am) you’d be covered - but probably also gained enough experience to not get stuck in such an entirely avoidable situation anyway.

This is a quite important discussion - the last years have seen an increase of cases where people needed to be rescued from situations they should not have gotten themselves in.

That includes school groups where teachers didn’t bother to prepare, and people without experience following influencers route suggestions. I guess next step would be checking liability for those as well.

Properly equipped with a bivy bag that situation might have been survivable.