43 people?!? Well, they had several things in their favor... the racket of the snoring surely kept any newly awakened, hungry bears at bay; they must not have wanted for body warmth; there must not have been a lack of morning cheer from the number of ohayougozaimasu's generated; by linking hands no crevasse or river of thin ice could have prevented them from taking a beeline down the mountainside; and, stacked on top of one another, they could easily have cleared the tallest trees to have a scout around. Must have been quite a party!

I wish I could remember the formula from probability theory in maths to work out the number of permutations of Ohayou Gozaimasu in a group of 43 hikers. It's a fair few good mornings no matter how you look at it. Could go on for most of the morning!