In any open forum discussing the finer points my money's on Megan every time. Not that that means diddly-squat.
if they missed their sightseeing through weather the company could not be held accountable for that. It was always a possibility, and I would be quite certain they would rather have missed Scott Base and got home again.
….. as one of his harsher critics espouses. " rather have missed Scott Base and got home again. " .. . . Yep. . . you're probably right there in your certainty that they'd want to get home again . . .. seems a reasonable proposition as opposed to having your mortal remains strewn across the bleak and lonely face of Erebus.