I’m a bit confused by all this- I accept that people make mistakes with stuff like this on a nice day, even in winter, and to a large degree rescue is there for this reasons- most folk in trouble have made a mistake of some sort or other, and it’s, imo, not necessary to judge.
But, given the weather of the last couple of days, and the warnings given out, I genuinely can’t understand how people so ill-equipped could have ventured out. In my books, it’s negligence, not a mistake.
I did though have the half thought that they could have been runners, but surely not…