Posted on 08/23/2023 12:15:12 PM PDT by george76
Russian scientist Dr. Dmitry Fedyanin seemed to die doing what he loved.
German officials say the 34-year-old expert in ultra-violet light and a senior research fellow at the Nanooptics Department of Siegen University in Germany fell to his death Berchtesgadener Alps National Park after following his hiking app over a cliff.
Fedyanin’s body was found at the bottom of Hoher Laafeld peak, which sits at about 7,000 feet.
Fedyanin was using his hiking app to make his way down the mountain but the route he was taking didn’t have paths and the app “sent him over mountain precipice.”
“Our investigators assume that the male individual slipped in the rocky area which features some patches of grass,” police spokesman Maximilian Maier told media outlets.
“He then slid down at least 150 meters (492 feet). It is understood that he had been around on his own.”
It’s been a brutal 10-day stretch for the Berchtesgadener Alps, according to German news outlet BR24, which reports there were four deaths in the mountains. In one case, a 57-year-old woman slipped to her death as her husband watched in horror. There was also a 29-year-old woman from Austria who fell to her death after a “misstep.”
Purge is on.
I noticed but wasn’t going to say anything, then it was pointed out. :)
Just a weird coincidence. ;^)
Don’t be a racist conspiracy theorist, now;D
The accidental slip sounds like a perfectly plausible explanation. I’ve managed to avoid this particular kind by staying out of the mountains. :^)
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