The story is apparently much much worse than it sounds from the brief coverage.
Rebecca Watson did a video on it recently: https://youtu.be/zf6rUxqrDes
There were, apparently, many many signs that things were not going well: beginning the hike too late in the day; passing a sign that said "do not continue if you have not reached this point by X time", despite reaching it hours later; Waving off a rescue helicopter; putting his phone in DND mode.
A former girlfriend testified that he has done basically the same thing to her years earlier, on the same mountain.
That one anecdote about the woman who was told to dress super casually for a first date and found out she'd been invited to a fine dining restaurant is really eye-opening.
Men who do this are pathetic and it's really sad to discover that they behave this way at seemingly every turn.
Does the concept of gentleman no longer exist?
Mind you, I have no expectations of quality reporting from The Guardian.
It's not implying that at all.
