Didnt those guys have a plan for when everything went to sh!t? (How we gonna survive if 3 or 4 of us get dead?)
Here are rest of us wiping the red smear off the mountain.
Experienced climbing teams are roped together and when one starts to slip, they yell “Falling!” and then the rest basically go to ground and cling to whatever they can to take the shock of the falling climber and arrest anyone else before the weight and momentum of the fallen takes anyone else with them.
The one or two closest may render assistance to the fallen to get back to a safe hold. But most of the team remain in place to anchor and belay the team until they work themselves out of the mess.
As I understand it.