Without actually declaring it nationally in the press, the Mountain rescue have accepted that the young couple who went missing eight day's ago on Ben Nevis, are probably dead.
The weather has to be pretty extreme and hostile for the Mountain rescue to call off a search, due to potential avalanch conditions, depth of snow and extreme temperatures.
Another young adventurer was eventually rescued this weekend, he somehow managed to get to the summit shelter and call for help.
His battery in his mobile phone eventually gave out, but members of the Mountain rescue did manage to get him down, after a several hour exercise.
No sign of the other couple was discovered, their whereabouts is still a mystery.
If they managed to rescue one person from the rescue shelter on the summit, surely if the other couple were in that area, they would have been discovered.
How their parents, who have made the journey from Canada, must be feeling, we can only imagine, but according to the papers, temperatures on the summit combined with the windchill, were approaching -18.
Nobody could spent an entire week out on Britains highest mountain in such adverse conditions, and survive.
It really brought home the walk i did last October, the mountain looked harmless enough in settled weather, but in full winter, its best left alone.