It was a very difficult expidition, and I am not supprised that it took someones life. They had us in unfamiliar terratories with out trails, I mean the ULTIMATE bush wacking experiance. Plus they had us hawling around 75 pound back packs! Those conditions, along with the heat and poor food, made it extreamly difficult to skirt along the mountains, with nothing to hold onto bet scratchy manzinita bushes.