you really are going to have to fix that search engine, google is more relevant about bcuk than bcuk's own searck engine.
Defacto: things like this are sad and everyone will have sympathy for those involved.
Have just posted on this, searched it on the site , and now found it on google.
I would just like to add perspective on this, on what others, Mary McArthur and others on hear have said.
He seems to be having tried to out do native people. native people's have to kill wild animals and store meat. In this environment the natural course would have been to shoot a deer, a sheep, a horse, caught a salmon, killed birds, saught shelter in the lowlands, taken yourself out of harms way, prepared food in the summer ie learning to provide for yourself, and (NOT SARCASTICALLY) gone to civililisation and found a house.
all of the above things are either :
a ) illegal, against the law, naughty naughty.
Or
b)completly contrary to the idea of bushcraft.
or
c)stocking up during the summer, and live in the bothy all winter isn't an option because it' not forraging
what he was doing was completly contrary to human sense, just like mountaineering in the snow, and was hit with his equivalent of an avalanche.Just because you believe that with bushcraft skills and the modern world if it all goes wrong you can bail out,in such an environment severe difficulties don't take long. Hypothermia and dehydration quickly lead to desision making problems and disorentation and when on your own there is no one to help. people just want to go to sleep in this situation, and even though the nearest town is one to two days walk, it would not have entered his head.
In my opinion he was pushing the boundaries of what is humanly and physically possible, and when that happens people die. Take everest or k2, thats why you dont catch me in similar situations, man could not do these things in prehistory, so he shouldn't do them now relying on modern technology!