Military is COMPLETELY different. They risk their lives on the behalf of others; mountaineering risk their lives on behalf of their own egos. Apples and Oranges.
Sort of. I’m talking about risking lives when it is not justified - military and civilian.
I cannot get past your equivalence between the two - as a former Marine, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. For a military man to retrieve a fallen warrior is of the absolute highest order, and well worth any effort. Any military personnel that is fallen in combat deserves every possible effort to retrieve their remains. You will note, from time to time, you hear about a fallen soldier from a long-past war being found and the body being brought back to be laid at rest in honor- dont seem to even recall a dead mountaineer receiving the same.