> 9/9 could have gotten wet. This is very unlikely in negative temperatures in the -30-20 range. > It's not clear at all that this group's 1959 best practices

> 9/9 could have gotten wet. This is very unlikely in negative temperatures in the -30-20 range. > It's not clear at all that this group's 1959 best practices (even given their considerable experience) was on par with what we would do now. Even supposing the unlikely event that 9/9 did get hypothermia before other symptoms, you are still saying that they all became simultaneously delirious to the point that not even one of them was found dead in a position that indicated some kind of normal reaction one would expect from an experienced person (I'm not saying a life-saving reaction - we know no one survived, but anything remotely bordering on rational)..