fascinating reading on how this tragedy unfolding in Sierra Tahoe https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/02/28/us/tahoe-avalanche-survivors.html An interesting points here is the "human-decision making trap" which is familiar to any reliability engineer on scaled system: experienced engineer assume a familiar route is fine while everyone else is eager to push it over the line, then a crash snowballs into an incident.
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