They seem to have a lot of money to do what they please without any regular job.
That sounds any number of people I've met in my many years loitering about on a university campus.
Since when does anyone expect your average trust-funded college boy -- regardless of his marks in foreign language classes -- to act with anything but stupidity?
Around here they tend to get struck by lightning, freeze to death in early October blizzards, crater off of a route that's beyond their abilities to climb or protect safely, or, most commonly, start an avalanche that envelops them. Heck, I've seen the last one with my own eyes. (He got lucky and managed to ski out.) And of course there's the ubiquitous phenomenon of guys that choke to death on their own vomit or get blitzed and wrap their cars around telephone poles.
By those standards, poking around in the borderlands between one of the most war-torn and one of the most America-hating (by the government, at least) countries in the world sounds like a rockin' good time.
