Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion hiking ethics

I disagree that you necessarily would stay. I would do the full patient assessment and base my decision on that. Unconscious and breathing is probably an evacuation event, so once I've done what I can for the person, I am consulting my NOLS cheat sheet but probably going for help.

Well I see now that you said stay if staying will be more help than going. Fair enough. But how do you make that decision? Seems to me that ducks the key question. But that is where the NOLS training is so helpful.

Decision making is a crisis is hard, and that is what WFA training addresses. So rather rather than attempt to answer what I see as a very incomplete hypothetical based on a well-intentioned but flawed premise, I'd prefer to suggest the tools/resources available to address this type of situation.