Karen Greene, no one is making any judgement here except for you who seem to be jumping to every conjecture as if its a personal attack on you. Life goes on, Karen, no need to filled the blog with platitudes about the dead.  Discussing this, help all of us, understand what may happened. No one will really know from what the article is staying. Conjectures may lead to lessons that may help others. Dead is dead, Karen, let try to discourage others from such fate, eh?

S. Carl Tobin, Mallory's body was found.....I guess he fell and broke his leg. That doomed him since rescue was out of  the question. Just a simple accident and a life is gone. They never found his partner...Irvine...was it? Probably fell off the mountain.

I don't think Candless was mentally ill in the sense we used that word now. But he was very naïve and that cost him.