@jds In my kayak club there´s a few people who do mountain SAR around our neck of the woods. They occasionally have similar stories.
(Also, a surprising number of people around here just fall off the mountains. Roughly 2-3 a week in summer. Some of them are daft tourists. Others are locals saying "I´ve been hiking here since I could walk, and I don´t care there´s a snowstorm coming")