How does not having sympathy for someone make me a "right wing extremist"?. Perhaps my understanding of the word sympathy is different to others.
If someone was told not to go on a mountain ridge due to thunder storms but still went and got struck by lightening I would have no sympathy. If someone was told not to go into a cave system because of heavy rain and still did and came unstuck again I would have no sympathy.
The journalist putting herself in the highly dangerous place that she did, along with the others that were there, is not heroic just plain stupid.
Right wing extremist? I don't think so.