While my sympathy goes out to the victims and their loved ones, I have mixed emotions about why these people died. Like sky diving, mountain climbing by its very nature is dangerous. Climbers know the dangers and take their chances each time the make attempts at climbing to lofty peaks which are but places for birds to perch. No matter what equipment and safeguards are used, one miscalculation, one misstep, etc. and its over.
Same with a lot of daily activities driving or riding in a motor vehicle is one of the most dangerous ones
That people do with out hardly thinking about it. One wrong look one miss calculation there’s a 80000 lb truck in your face. Your dead.
Blues Traveler - The Mountains Win Again
And they KNOW IT, which is why if they end up getting killed "in action," so to speak, that is between them and God because they took that risk with their eyes wide open, as is their right. "Safe"-living folks who judge them harshly, would be equally harshly judged by risk-taking folks for living so timidly and dully. I would tend to agree with the latter take, in fact. A wise person once told me that at the end of your life, it isn't what you DID that you regret so much, it's what you DIDN'T do. If I hadn't gone skydiving when I had the chance, I'd regret it to this day; I went, and it remains one of the most thrilling and exhilarating experiences in my life so far.
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity. People who are hesitant to take risks in pursuit of whatever they seek, provide much fewer opportunities for themselves for gaining what they seek.