Round-the-world yachtsman Ian Kiernan criticised Abby for failing to respect the sea. "I don't know what she's doing in the southern Indian Ocean in the middle of the winter. We need adventurers but adventurers who do foolhardy things and put their rescuers at risk, it should not be allowed."
Interesting comments pyx, and I know Kiernan is a yachtsman, not a mountain climber, but "adventurers" routinely put themselves and their rescuers at risk. And when one or the other, or both, die, it's always looked at as "foolhardy".
As to what was she doing in the Indian Ocean, perhaps she was trying to find those "regionally rising sea-levels".
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
What does Popeye have to say about all of this?