It happens more than you might think. There's one of my HS classmates dead in a crashed plane on a glacial ice-fall in the Alaska Range along with a few other construction types. I even worked on the project that those poor bastards were headed out to work on.
Oh, I know and understand. I've been asked to come up to AK to fly. But I know that I'm not cut out to be a bush pilot there so I always say NO. I also know that I wouldn't like all that cold wx.