Gah, this one's driving me crazy! There's something missing…The second guide had never been on such a long hike, but he was supposed to be a guide? And "despite the warnings"…What warnings? Were there others?
…Okay, I have two half-baked theories…First of all, are the man and two guides JUST a regular guy and two regular guides, or is there more to it than that? And second, what warnings did the second guide not heed or whatever?