Well, Mark, you pretty much nailed it!

Belief Systems. Faith.  Knowing.  Powerful things, indeed.  Needing to believe, otherwise what is left?  As Mark challenges the very foundation upon which Harvey Camel based his existence, in front of the layer of snow that buried him, assumed to have killed him, he feels absolutely no compunction about any of it.  Never mind the fact that the snow slid over a week ago in real time, never mind that we have all been snowed over, so to speak, for months now, I think it’s time to find his crushed corpse and Sherpa his ass down the mountain…