I know how I would've reacted. I would've walked my ass off until I can't breathe anymore. Walk and walk and walk. Once you reach an altitude where temperature, pressure and snow levels are favorable to human life, your chances of survival increase exponentially.
THEY WERE JUST TOO DUMB TO THINK STRAIGHT.
Rugby players, what were you expecting? Not rocket scientists.
You don't think that they tried to do that? They were stranded due to weather.
The only thing that could've stopped them would be rain. I doubt they had rain. Snow and wind can't stop a man walking down a mountain.
One day to prepare clothes and food, 3-4 days walking, they're saved.
Are you ever close to die in a mountain? If you dont know that feeling you dont know what you are tslking about. In extreme conditions where is cold, is dificult to walk with snow and all is full of cliffs, just go down, usually is not easy or even possible. There no trails o signs. I dont think I would eat nobody but also I know and didnt have that extreme experience, I have some experience in high mountains trying to survive and I can tell you, your mind change to survival mode and you have different logical thinking.
They did it in the end. They could've done it at the beginning. Rich boys with no idea of how Nature and their own bodies works.
It doesnt matter rich or poor boys, matter experience and courage. At the beginning they expect somebody goes to rescue them but then they felt hungry and low energy. I understand what you mean, just I am trying to explain that things seems really easy from your warm sofa. Outside with cold, hungry and hopeless your brain works in other way.
