People in grief will often deal out harsh judgement. Sometimes justified, sometimes not. Hard to tell which is which when evaluating through the news.

Snowmobiles and the ease of transport can be lethal when coupled with a limited understanding of the environment and what bad winter weather actually requires in terms of gear and skills. Even for the locals, that knowledge flies out the window when it's just a short fun ride to watch the sunset or whatever. It's only 10 minutes, right? You get pretty far in 10 minutes on a snow mobile.

Last winter three out of nine kids died in Northern part of Norway - just taking a short "fun ride" and being caught unprepared by REALLY bad weather. Six of them were saved due to a tremendous effort of SAR, using every available resource and bending and breaking safety rules to get the rescue helicopter flying. (Sometimes it is good to have a military SAR capacity - there is absolutely no way a civilian heli crew could get a way with that kind of violations). Some parents of the dead think their kids could have been saved if they only had been permitted to join the search party sooner. Maybe, maybe not - no one will know for sure.