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To run so low on expedition resources that one needs to call the military, at the cost of the Canadian tax-payer, is completely unacceptable… Roald Amundsen once said ‘adventure is bad planning’. A well-planned and executed expedition does not include dramatics.

When an adventurer turns on an emergency beacon and calls for Search & Rescue, it is no longer a personal decision. It affects the safety of the Search & Rescue personnel, it affects the Canadian tax-payers who foot the bill and it affects other (more responsible) adventurers. This behaviour does and will reflect on the entire polar adventuring community. The Canadian authorities will not accept paying for very many unnecessary Search & Rescues before they put in place restrictions and regulations. In Canadian National Parks, if a person calls for rescue, that rescue is evaluated and… that person may be asked to pay the bill.

The same procedure should be used for polar adventurers. Anyone who calls for unnecessary Search & Rescue should not be portrayed as a hero on CNN, but as a fool.