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    if the highway patrol has kept the road open, there are assumed to be minimal risk.

Clearly there wasn't minimal risk as traffic backed up for miles. Lack of injury and death was due to assistance from rescuers.

Where on the scale of "poor winter roads" to "month on the side of a Himalayan mountain" does it change from a reasonable risk where the risk to rescuers is acceptable to it being unacceptable? I argue that scale is very gray, and the grayness is why the two can be compared.

    find me one (1) instance where a request for help was made and there was no attempt

What's considered as no attempt? The rescue last week never looked for the second climber.