Monday morning quarterbacking someting like this gets better after a few more mondays. Who can claim to know all the facts or what they were thinking? As another poster pointed out, there were valid reasons for an ascent this time of year. The one climber suffered a traumatic arm injury. Any injury under those conditions is a whole lot more serious than slipping on wet pavement outside an emergency room. His friends made the decision for a rapid descent to get help with a storm moving in. They failed.