Seems to be a problem with snapped ropes this season...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93y147z4pdo
Wow, what a story. Sharp rock cut their rope and they lost all their supplies: safety equipment left, tent, stove to melt snow for water, warm clothes, ice axes, crampons, head flashlight for moving at night.
Imagine what you’d feel watching all that life-saving equipment going down, down, down, gone!
Thank goodness they had a satellite communicator.
I’ve started taking a Garmin Inreach Mini satellite communicator with me on my day hikes. I’m often in somewhat remote areas with no cell service and no other hikers (or only one or two others). Nothing like what these women experienced, of course.