https://nhfishgame.com/2024/01/18/hi...m-mount-guyot/
A lot of missing details at this point. His trail name was Rafiki.
He had a two year old son There is a Go Fund Me established https://www.gofundme.com/f/christopher-roma
Winter had held off in the Whites until the last two weeks. No snow pack to speak of and warmer than normal temps (some days). That changed recently with a couple of snowstorms that dumped a lot of snow up high but down low they changed to rain reducing the snow pack somewhat. There was a recent snowfall of mostly powder. Mt Guyot is in one of more remote areas of the whites with no fast access. It does get a lot of use in the winter due to it being part of Pemi loop (a hiking challenge and some of the more difficult to access four thousand footers. Normally trails would have been packed out MLK weekend but the weather was not good so its likely the deceased would have been breaking trail in three to four feet of snow. This is a major physical effort where forward progress will slow to crawl. There is also good chance of clothes getting wet from perspiration and snow on the outer layer, its a perfect combination for hypothermia and sadly one of the earliest symptoms of hypothermia is loss of clear thought which can lead to bad decisions.