"Morgans" wrote

You like to throw the dice, and hope they come up double 6's. I hope they
do.

If ever you are slapped with some system failure that is necessary to keep
the plane in the air, you just shot craps. In the mountains, (in IFR
especially) you are not too likely to find a good enough landing place to
save your life.

It is all about risk management, and risk acceptance. You are willing to
minimize the risk, and take what ever hand is dealt, from there on out.
Some are not.

I believe that statistics would indicate that fatal crashes that are the
result of an actual mechanical or electrical failure are quite rare. I also
suspect that the number of twin engine aircraft that have suffered an engine
failure in flight in IMC and then landed without incident is also quite low.
The risk comparison between single engine vs multi engine for a flight like
this in reality is probably close, although psychologically it may seem like
there is a vast difference.

How many multi-engine pilots do you know who routinely go out and practice
engine failure procedures? How many multi-engine crashes have been
attributed to mismanagement of the aircraft after an engine failure?

In the mountains it won't matter anyway, because the single engine service
ceiling of most light twins is down around 8,000 feet or so.