The shocking reaction skier, 45, had when police rescued him

‘They risked their lives’: Police slam skier, 45, for COMPLAINING after rescue crews spent five hours hiking through a blizzard to save him

  • Last Friday the man called police to evacuate him from Kosciuszko National Park
  • Rescue teams hiked more than five hours through severe conditions to save him 
  • Conditions were so bad crews couldn’t see crevasses or cliffs in front of them
  • The man complained that police couldn’t bring back his equipment with them  

A police officer has revealed the ungrateful response that emergency crews were met with after hiking five hours through a blizzard to rescue a hiker.

Last Friday a 45-year-old man called for help from emergency services at 4am after his tent collapsed in the Kosciuszko National Park, near Mt Stillwell. 

It took the alpine rescue crew more than five hours to hike two kilometres through hazardous weather conditions to save the man. 

Last Friday a 45-year-old man called for help from emergency services at 4am after his tent collapsed in the Kosciuszko National Park, near Mt Stillwell

Around eight hours after his first call, the man was successfully evacuated and returned to Charlottes Pass, suffering hypothermia and exposure.    

But Superintendent Paul Condon told Ray Hadley on 2GB that despite risking their lives, the rescue team didn’t receive thanks from the man. 

‘To be honest, that person wasn’t real happy that the police didn’t then remove all of his equipment as well at the same time,’ he said.  

Superintendent Condon said conditions were so bad that the rescue team couldn’t even see their hands if they put them up to their face. 

‘They risked their lives to go rescue this gentleman,’ he said. 

‘That’s the most frustrating part of the job, people just disregard warnings and think they have capabilities a world beyond what they actually do have’. 

Hadley was equally as shocked by the hiker’s ungracious response. 

‘Are you telling me that this ungrateful bastard… this imbecile, puts on a blue that he wants his gear packed up and brought back with him?’ 

‘Can you do an IQ test for a 45-year-old who decides to go into freezing conditions with a two-man tent, then hopes that someone can come and get him out of there,’ Hadley said. 

‘I just don’t understand the common sense factor here, it escapes me’.   

Superintendent Paul Condon said that conditions were so bad that the rescue team couldn't even see their hands if they put them up to their face.

Superintendent Paul Condon said that conditions were so bad that the rescue team couldn’t even see their hands if they put them up to their face.

 

 

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