Yep, I've got some experience hiking and backpacking in both Yellowstone, and Shenandoah parks and the Rangeley Lakes area in Maine and Mount Washington in NH....conditions can change on a dime, if you don't have the right gear it can be a matter of severe injury or death. Mother nature doesn't mess around.....nice post....
Yeah, at the root of it is just hubris and a basic disrespect for nature. Like a Darwinist version of those idiots who try to take a selfie with [insert wild animal name here]. I do feel bad for their families but a bad result is fairly predictable.