>>1712282>If the stupid fucker had had an EPIRB in his pocket,I was going to ignore the post due to, well, the valid points in greentext, but then you went full retard yourself.
If all of those things you've listed were done, rather than deliberately ignored, he would have been found, without having to carry a motherfucking EPIRB. EPIRB makes sense in, say, nautical situation. Hiking? Not so much.