We had a big night out, chasing time in foul weather to reach and rewarm two stranded hikers.  One required a stretcher to get to shelter

.  Photo Rik de Dekker.

As people's notions of snow being normal increases, we will have to keep doing this kind of operation.  The logistics and layers of support required are just so huge compared with our equivalent sunny day operations.

Here is some press on the incident.