To help keep “Mountains Mishaps” up to date, I’ve been reading “Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite”. This says some interesting things about Lost Person Behaviour regarding the difference between Adults and Children.
“Young children who realize they are lost usually (though not universally) do not go far, do not go into ridiculous places, frequently do hunker down into a protected spot, and often even hide from the “strangers” who are searching for them -even when those adults are calling out the child’s own name.
In contrast, adults usually do plod onward in meandering routes, sometimes to places far from where they got lost; adults frequently trap themselves in ridiculous places; and when many adults finally do hunker down, they do so in less protected spots than most 4 year-olds would choose. In contrast to children, instead of staying put and going to sleep in some protected place, many adults keep going like the Energizer Bunny, getting more lost and even harder to find.”
You can read more about lost people and lost person behaviour in Australia in “Mountains Mishaps: Death and Misadventure in the Blue Mountains.” https://lnkd.in/ge7CYb5v
Page 465, “Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite”, by M. Ghiglieri and C. Farrabee
“Young children who realize they are lost usually (though not universally) do not go far, do not go into ridiculous places, frequently do hunker down into a protected spot, and often even hide from the “strangers” who are searching for them -even when those adults are calling out the child’s own name.
In contrast, adults usually do plod onward in meandering routes, sometimes to places far from where they got lost; adults frequently trap themselves in ridiculous places; and when many adults finally do hunker down, they do so in less protected spots than most 4 year-olds would choose. In contrast to children, instead of staying put and going to sleep in some protected place, many adults keep going like the Energizer Bunny, getting more lost and even harder to find.”
You can read more about lost people and lost person behaviour in Australia in “Mountains Mishaps: Death and Misadventure in the Blue Mountains.” https://lnkd.in/ge7CYb5v
Page 465, “Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite”, by M. Ghiglieri and C. Farrabee