It was nagging at me if Kolevatov was such a self-centered prick as Blinov describes him, why did he remain with the badly injured comrades and didn't run for his life? He could have survived, he had the experience.
And here we have a completely different character witness, a girl who went on hikes with Aleksander Kolevatov and says he would never leave anyone behind in the mountain.
Remembering Sasha KolevatovAn Oscar winning movie based on the book signed by Aleksander Kolevatov directed by Akira Kurosawa