As I said in another post, at the moment I'm trying to get different views on the whole thing. In the process of doing so, I started wondering:
What exactly makes everyone think, they died in the night of Feb 1 to 2?
Sure, there's the Evening Otorten dated Feb 1st. There's the fact, that there are no diary entries past that date. But then again we believe that there's photos missing, pages missing, whole diaries missing.
It seems to be established, that there were no tracks past the point where the tent was found. And taking into account, that they were on the move, it makes sense to assume, they would have gone further, if they were still alive on Feb 2nd.
But what if...?
What if they had passed the whole day of Feb 2nd there, maybe because of the weather, maybe because of the wounded ankle of (I forgot whose ankle it was...).
Did anyone ever check the weather conditions and so on for the nights following?
Maybe it's a stupid question. But then again what would we not know if no one had asked seemingly stupid questions. So forgive me. ;)