Especially given that it was the 1970's and parachutes had absolutely no steering back then. At night, in the dark, I'm not sure if it would be worse getting s

Especially given that it was the 1970's and parachutes had absolutely no steering back then. At night, in the dark, I'm not sure if it would be worse getting stuck 50 or 100 feet off the ground, in a tree that can't be safely climbed, or dropped right in the middle of an unfamiliar frigid lake, and having to swim to shore before hypothermia sets in. I think, getting stuck in some widow-maker of a tree leaves you with a fighting chance to wait until daylight, to negotiate how to overcome the hazard, but a lake forces you to struggle, possibly into a bad decision, because you have to act before the cold overwhelms you.