We've had 8 such mishaps in California with lost hikers, or people going over cliffs recently. I don't think it's hubris, so much as the mass ignorance of, and complacency our society holds Mother Nature in ( and we all know what happens when you don't listen to mother.) We all put ourselves in "Harm's Way" somehow daily. I don't wear helmets riding horseback, the apartment handyman almost lost a hand wearing gloves running a table saw and that black asphalt is a study in stupidity by otherwise decent people.