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Why don't you send an email to Peter Sleeth at the Oregonian...

Sure. A rhetorical question to Peter Sleeth, woodbutcher, Mt. Hood SAR and you. "Would Mr. Kim have died if anyone of you had been in charge?"

This is a great question. also I wonder; would I of died with the same limited resources and stuck in the same place as Mr. Kim.

As far as the rescue operation goes there were a few searchers and not enough threads going back to enough rescue managers (a tiered central command). Literally a thousand logging spur roads. I personally never would have expected to be successful. Team work...

As the searcher; You can't even be sure with the Kim's that your actually looking for some body. May be they went to Hawaii. My uncles long time wife disappeared at a party every body's searching and worried, newspapers reporting the disappearance. she had run off to salt lake for a fling. terribly embarrassing.

What if I was mister Kim: same resources, same place, same weather, my chances would be... slightly better or dead sooner.

Sure. A rhetorical question to Peter Sleeth, woodbutcher, Mt. Hood SAR and you. "Would Mr. Kim have died if anyone of you had been in charge?"

That kind of thinking is exactly some people can never discover the truth.

That remark is like if your wife tells you to take out the garbage, you ask her how often it would get picked up if she was driving the truck.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter under discussion.

If your thinking had any logic whatsoever, a judge and jury would every single one have have driven a car to destruction to sit on a fatal crash case, every one of them would have had to practice surgery to sit on a medical case (the guy died because he got too much anesthesia; judge, demonstrate for us how you would administer anesthesia).

Your theory is that unless you have done it yourself, you are not qualified to make a judgment?

I saw a guy crash a C-47, killing everyone on board. Was I qualified to say that he did a lousy job of flying that airplane because was never checked out in that airplane?
But none of that is the point. The point is that whether I have ever run a SAR, checked out in a C-47 or your wife drives a garbage truck, has nothing to do with the discussion. Learn to follow the train of thought. It makes it easier.

Sure. A rhetorical question to Peter Sleeth, woodbutcher, Mt. Hood SAR and you. "Would Mr. Kim have died if anyone of you had been in charge?"

Of course it's impossible to prove a negative, but I can promise you that I wouldn't be giving interviews where I stated that I was totally overwhelmed by the whole process.