I agree, well written and a good objective view of the events.
I know what you are saying, that outdoor adventures could have gone wrong, I'm in the same boat. But going wrong could be getting hurt, getting lost, gear breaking, something like that. In the case of these 2 hikers one was so inexperienced that he was going solely on the advice of his mentor, and the mentor was so experienced that it was inexplicable that he would make the mistake he did. Walking into a major, well predicted storm on the assumption you'd hike fast enough to beat it on a several mile exposed ridge in winter is madness.
The helicopter stuff was beyond amazing, that the pilot had the skill and the chopper had the capability to operate in those conditions.
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