It is only human to feel sorry for their loved ones. However it is very hard to feel sorry for those who DELIBERATELY enter a winter storm on a mountain for kicks and giggles.
This is the first I've read about them "deliberately entering a winter storm for kicks and giggles". The accounts I've read have them attempting the climb in good weather conditions, one of the three injuring himself and thus delaying the descent, and a storm coming up earlier then expected. Can you provide a link that details this "deliberate" bit?
You said -- "However it is very hard to feel sorry for those who DELIBERATELY enter a winter storm on a mountain for kicks and giggles."
I've driven up Mt. Hood to Timberline Lodge in the middle of a snow storm, got a room and stayed there. Now, if I had ventured out into the parking lot, they might have had to call a rescue crew for me. But, instead, I stayed up on the second floor of the lodge and reached out the window to reach the snow.
Heck, people go up there all the time in snow storms. They might even slide off the road into a ditch in a snow storm. You drive the main highway (going into Eastern Oregon) and you could hit a snow storm.
You can go up there on a nice day, walk up the line where the lift is and get caught in a snow storm before you can even get back to the lodge. People have been lost that way before. But, it doesn't stop people in Oregon.
People don't stay off Mt. Hood because of snow, not in Oregon...
Regards,
Star Traveler