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Did they feel the tent was worth saving?

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GlennM:
Another investigator teaches me that the Blinov expedition experienced a burned tent. They did not abort their trek, but rather rendered the tent into sheets which were used individually to make snow shelters for the rest of their hike.

The standard canon for DPI supposes the hikers were trapped in the tent in a slab slide and cut their way out.  They left the area and the worst happened. So here is where I am confused. On the one hand, if the tent was damaged beyond repair, assuming  they had cutting knives in hand, why not cut it up for personal protection?  On the other hand, if they thought they could effect a repair on such a badly ripped tent, then why risk life and limb getting so far from it with so little personal protection? Any ideas?

Axelrod:

--- Quote from: GlennM on November 10, 2024, 12:16:31 PM ---The standard canon for DPI supposes ************* So here is where I am confused. ***** Any ideas?

--- End quote ---
It is way for any canons.... not especially standard.

GlennM:
Doesn't help. Try again, please.

Osi:
In the conditions of fear, panic, uncertainty (you are suddenly covered in a closed area and you cannot understand what is happening) and darkness, it seems understandable that they had to cut the tent to get out of the tent that collapsed because of the sign.

The first task is to go down to the tree line and light a fire, and return in the daylight to fix the collapsed and cut tent.

The clothes seem sufficient to spend a night by the fire in the forest. (Sufficient in emergency exit conditions) We witness the sale of clothes in the forest and some of them are naked. This situation indicates that they have seen each other die.

GlennM:
Osi, I like your analysis and it agrees with my point of view. Cutting the tent so severely in order to escape assumes they had sufficient material to actually mend it. Since I believe Igor and others were stuffing holes with a jacket etc., before the calamity, their decision to savage the tent was certainly extreme.

I thought that the expedition would end when the tent was damaged, but others insist this would not be the case. It would be inconvenient, but not crippling. The unknown compelling force must certainly have been the weather.

Your post made more sense to me than another response I read. Appreciated.

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