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Depends on where in the world you are.

For the US, it's on a state-by-state basis but rescue is usually free as long as it's a true emergency and you weren't blatantly reckless to begin with.

For other parts of the world, you might get a bill to recover the cost of rescue. But in most cases it's still usually free.

(Medical care once you get back to civilization is a different story.)




Wow. That's honestly quite amazing. Our world would really be incomprehensible to someone just a few hundred years ago




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