Choppers seldom fly above mountains by virtue of normal operation parameters. Situational awareness is paramount to recovery during inadvertent flight into IFR conditions. Several of my compatriots splatted on tall mountains in Nam, others wiggled their way out of it. The pucker factor is off the scale.

I am..........disturbed.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain