Sure, there are a plethora of things we don't know. But he was reportedly going from Noorvik to Kotzebue: https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5w https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5

Sure, there are a plethora of things we don't know. But he was reportedly going from Noorvik to Kotzebue: https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5w https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5w which is one tiny town in the middle of nowhere, to another slightly larger town in the middle of nowhere. The emergency alert was received at around 2AM, so he was doing this in the middle of the night. It stands to reason that when you are in such conditions, you should be prepared for circumstances such as "what happens if my means of transportation breaks down". It seems like a risk was taken, and when you take a risk and things go wrong and you need to be rescued, you are putting the lives of other people at risk. Maybe it was all completely justified, but on paper it doesn't seem that way.