That's awful. Low visibility and/or dark conditions, easy to get the distances a little wrong if you're using map & compass, looking in the rain for some loose and slippery goat track down the mountain that the guidebook says is there but doesn't describe...pretty easy to let the mistakes build up.
Having said that a kilometre off route is a good way, and you'd hope you were being pretty damn careful if you didn't know the route, the conditions were bad, and there were 130m sheer drops all around the area.
At least he didn't have his kids or wife with him, that could have been really sad and ugly. |