>>The matched pair of ice axes discovered Sunday by rescuers indicates strong winds, estimated at up to 100 mph, could have "blown away" the climber above, Henderson said.
"To leave the ice axes was not intentional," he said. "They are essential tools for climbing, one for each hand. On a hard face like that, you don't leave your tools." <<
I'm reading this to mean, that the ice axes did not belong to Kelly James then. He says that Hall and Cooke were traversing.
It appears that scenario regarding the fate of the other two has them going alone to the spot where two axes were found, leaving Kelly James in the snow cave, then meeting with an accident. How to account for Kelly's injury? But roamer's scenario accounts for it very well.
If the scenario of the two being without Kelly when they had their accident is correct, then yes, the ice axes would be theirs, not Kelly's. Question then: where are Kelly's tools??