Using AI to Plan Backcountry Trips Is Getting People Into Big Trouble

"I think they kind of turned their brains off." Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they'd made a series of bad decisions. They didn't bring enough food, and they'd overestimated their fitness. Instead of turning back in late afternoon when they hadn't yet reached the top, they summited at 7:30 p.m. and had to descend in the dark.