Don Wildman

They were not getting along.

They were not getting along very well, no.

And when we talk about cabins, we're talking about obviously one room, right?

I mean, these are small spaces with a fireplace in there, at least.

Yes, not very stable.

And I just want to underscore, we're not talking about a foot of snow here.

We're talking about 10 feet of snow, maybe even upwards of 20 feet, correct?

That's an impossible scenario.

Yeah.

So those cabins begin to be built in around late October, October 31st, I believe.

By the middle of December, things have grown desperate, obviously.

And they begin to think we have to send out some kind of mission, some sort of rescue attempt.

And they come up around December, the mid-December, December 16th, with what they call the Forlorn Hope Trek.

And I had to go over this a little bit because it sounds kind of like, wow, they really got organized about this thing and they even named it, right?

Incredible.

Not only physically surviving this thing, but navigating it in that kind of

Those conditions, there'd be no trail.

Of course there's no trail.

We're in 10 feet of snow at best.

It's outrageous to think that they could even move, let alone find their way to the place.