In reply to jimmyr:
Interesting thread.
I do feel people are a lot more reliant on others to get them out of trouble nowadays.
I met a guy last month (a nice guy seemed quite experienced and had done a lot) who had been rescued in North Wales around the Idwal Slabs area through going off route on a scramble and when I asked him what he was doing to make sure it never happened again he didn't seem to bothered and said he would call them again if he got in any more trouble and had learned nothing from the occasion. They were there in half an hour he said he really enjoyed the helicopter ride. Should have left him to sweat it out a bit longer I think.
I took a guy last year camping to Glencoe to do the Aonach Eagoch ridge didn't really know him that well but he said he was fit and had done lots of hillwalking and camping, just after everyone got their heads down he knocked on my van door and said he had an headache and wanted to go to the hospital, I said we are miles from anywhere can't it wait till the morning no he said he thought he was going to die, won't they send an helicopter for me?, I asked him who was going to pay for it his reply was I am on the dole won't they pick up the cost. Anyways drove him to Fort William dropped him off went back to the campsite started to get my head down when he called "Doctor said nothing is wrong but i still don't feel right any chance you can drive back to Fort William and lend me £80 to get the train home?"
Then there is the Benchgate incident were a group of young lads presumed there mate would be rescued because he was feeling cold and left him.
These 3 incidents along with the various media reports in the Lakes recently have really made me question what people feel is their right to be rescued.