Alex and Greg Lowe

Factual Questions
1

On Oct. 5 Alex Lowe was killed by an avalanche on Shishapangma. Was he related to Greg Lowe who founded the company called LoweAlpine ??
rb

2

I would infer from the following news article (in which Jeff Lowe is mentioned but not identified as family) that they were not related. (My inference could easily be wrong.)
http://mountainzone.com/climbing/99/shishapangma/lowe.html

Tom~

3

I always thought they were related (brothers?) but cannot find anything to substantiate that believe. strange.