This article is poorly written and inconsistent. It first says: > About a hundred feet downhill, the search party found “very distinct” footprints of eight or

This article is poorly written and inconsistent. It first says: > About a hundred feet downhill, the search party found “very distinct” footprints of eight or nine people, walking (not running) toward the tree line. Almost all the prints were of stockinged feet, some even bare. But then a few paragraphs down, says: > Something had happened that induced the skiers to cut their way out of the tent and flee into the night, into a howling blizzard, in twenty-below-zero temperatures, in bare feet or socks. So first the article takes care to point out that the group was not running, only to then say that they were? Which is it? I expect the New Yorker to have better quality control than this. I'm going to assume they used 'flee' in a more figurative sense, not literal, but such 'colorful' prose is sloppy in an article such as this.