Subject: Re: murder on a glacier?
Why murder them? It doesn't make sense.

Spontaneous murder is usually passion. Love, hate, anger. In the NYT article, the coroner said that just falling on an ice ax wouldn't go through clothes and then that deeply into the body. Plus broken face bones (could be from a fall, if not for the ice ax injury). The ice ax wasn't recovered, as if someone took it (or tossed it).

No, it doesn't really make sense. Gain makes sense (though is at least as heinous). Passions don't make sense. So that's my guess. Just a guess.