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This story reminded me of late CNet writer James Kim who died under similar circumstances (used Google Maps and ended up dying of hypothermia):

"It hasn't been definitively confirmed which online mapping service, if any, the Kim family used for directions."

What a garbage story. An online mapping service could have caused this. But we don't actually know.

ADDED: And as I noted in another comment, they were in fact just using a paper map (which is what I remembered being the case at the time).