-- If the proceeding paragraph didn't make much sense, well, neither does anything I've read about the botched hour-long search. (I have some additional information from a contact out there, which is partially reflected in the preceding paragraph, but he's pretty much stumped too.) Sure, wasting many precious minutes stumbling around, that's understandable. But an entire hour? They could have even gone back to where they had cell reception and watched Youtube video on how to use a beacon ... or turned off the beacon of the first beacon.
The ironical saving grace in all this is that the world's worst beacon search was offset by the world's most spectacular burial survival ... so I suppose all's well that end's well?
With all due respect, lets stay classy here. The "world's worst beacon search" was performed by a close friend. After discussing the incident with him directly, It was his actions and decision making that ultimately resulted in the survival of the second victim.
It easy to say what one should do from the comfort of your computer chair, dealing with this in the moment is another matter entirely. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made regarding their search. They needed to finish uncovering the first victim and rifle through his corpse to find the beacon and turn it off. Easy to say hard to do. He is very aware of this fact!!!
It is important to remember his actions resulted in the survival of the second victim.
