People face life or death situations for many reason one being that they made the wrong choice.for example in to build a fire when the author says ”he thinks about the man who gave him advice about the cold ;he scoffed …show more content…
The man probably thought he could handle going on it by himself and now that he has a problem realizes that he was wrong in going by himself. The last example is “this man did not know cold.possibly all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold ,of real cold,of cold one hundred and seven degrees below freezing point”.The man didn’t know how to survive he went with what he knew which was barely anything he didn’t realize when it was time to stop going because of the lack of training he had .people that are in life or death situation because of lack of training should be held responsible because they go to the wilderness not fully knowing what to do if something goes wrong because they don’t think anything bad could happen to them they depend more on their equipment rather than their own survival