Arrogance is thinking you smarter than everyone else on here because you've been to top of a mountain. Hopefully everyone on here learns a lesson and gets the phone out when in a similar situation and not being so cocky to think there skills can get them out.
I've been on Rainer and been in a chute when a rock the size of a VW bus came rolling on down. Sometimes there nothing you can do but the 3 up there could have called way before they did. That is being Arrogant and cocky.
Sometimes in life you have to ask for help, think your too much of a man and you'll be dead too.
All I can hope is someone learned.
And all the people cutting on people speculating on what happened shut up. Hell go on Yahoo and do a look up on the hikers names, Read every newspaper, They all speculated and got it wrong. Hell flame them. They get paid for there crap. Better educated guess here and it doesn't disrespect anyone. Me personally I could care less how things unfolded, them having the phone was the stupid thing and not using it. They were too proud to use it and it cost them there lives.