[cajungirl]

I think you said it,,you called us your "fellow taxpayers",,most of us think we are your brothers and sisters, fellow humans. We don't see you as our fellow taxpayer when you are lost in a snowstorm on a mountain in danger of freezing, dying or starving.

Not everything is about "tax paying". I keep reading remarks about how "expensive" it is to climb. There is alot of simple miserliness here. When lives are at stake even from people's own actions, we don't generally add up the cost to make a decision about rescue, treatemtn, etc. We just do it.

[AlexW]

"When lives are at stake even from people's own actions, we don't generally add up the cost to make a decision about rescue, treatemtn, etc. We just do it."

You take what I said out of context. Of course we have to do everything we can to save them, even if they are stupid, but they should be held to pay the tab, even if it bankrupts them.
What they did was NOT an accident. They went on a daredevil thrill trip, and YOU want everyone to pay for it.