Come on! They were dead! The world doesn’t stop. Assumption of risk-you know?
Of course you are right. But it is still something unusual.
Remember this?
They are probably frozen to the ground too. And they would have to be hauled out. Who is going to do that?
Those lost souls will be perfect for whomever lives 20,000 years in the future after the next ice age ends to analyze and dissect and try to understand why someone would be that foolish to climb a frozen mountain.