One cannot tell by the media alone, but it seems to me that for all the numbers of folks on the trail, the incidents of "stupid caused" rescues are fairly low. Mostly, I read about falls, injuries, heart attacks, etc, that require evacuation of the patient. I have seen many 'victims' of their own undoing on the trail, but almost all of them were willing to tough it out and take their lumps (I have done my fair share of sharing with those folks, because someday it might bee me)
