The three climbers did not have snow shoes, said Paladino. However, they likely had enough food and water to last several days, he said. Temperatures near the mountain's peak were in the 20s, Paladino added, not low enough to make frostbite a major concern.
Er did he mean that they had enough fuel to turn the snow and ice into water?
Just goes to show, that even experienced hikers and mountaineers (the guy in the CNN video) can make assumptions that make little sense with regard to reality. Sub freezing temperatures i.e. where liquid water turns to snow and ice, there is always a high risk of frostbite and death by hypothermia.
These climbers apparently were not even packing snow shows, so the likely hood was that they weren't even packing crampons and ice axes either.
Even nutnfancy's colleague in this
video was packing 40+ lbs of gear yet wasn't carrying mountaineering gloves or mittens (despite the fact he was carrying a side arm
)
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