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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a mom, if your baby died and your husband was dying, would you leave the dead baby to go for aid? I’m not sure I would be rationale enough to leave them and may take their corpse but that could have been the scene here.[/quote]

This mom was quite petite.  The baby carrier looks big and heavy.  She might not have wanted to leave the baby behind but may not have had a choice. She didn’t have the strength to carry it.  I honestly think she wasn’t thinking coherently by then from grief, panic and heat exhaustion.  The only cell phone mentioned was with the husband and so even if she took off, she didn’t have a cell phone on her. She didn’t think to get his cell phone.  It’s all very sad. [/quote]

The high end hiking carriers are not actually that heavy. Less than 10 pounds. You think the mom couldn’t carry 30 lbs (20 for baby and 10 for pack) if she had to?[/quote]

No, I don’t. That’s a third of her weight, bulky as f, in 103F heat, on uneven terrain and over 1.5 miles away. Impossible.

Generously, a mile would take her 20 minutes to walk in normal conditions. So 30-minutes for a mile-and-a-half. Now add a 30-pound weight to her back, it would probably take her at least forty-five minutes.

Which there’s no way she could sustain a march that long with that weight.[/quote]

Agree...what was left of the hike was brutal if you look at the elevation (just a 10 percent grade doubles your hiking time) and heat, and 30 percent of bodyweight on the back is considered a VERY high load even for a fit person. [/quote]

Yeah I couldn’t do it. I’m similar body type to her (5’1”, 100-105lbs) and an active walker/treadmill runner who is used to longer hikes. I sometimes have to carry my 20 lb dog and I don’t see being able to do a mile in that kind of heat, even if the ground were pretty flat. [/quote]

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