Traipsing around a mountain isn't the same thing as taking a walk at a city park.
,,, I just got off a phonecall with Greta Thunberg. She said this could only be blamed on climate change.
Ping!...........Oh, as I go a wandering, along the mountain path................
Unless we’re talking about children, women NEVER take responsibility. Whatever happened, it’s the man’s fault. Hell, Phil Donahue made a fortune telling women that men were always at fault.
It’s just the way the world works. You can go all the way back to Adam and Eve where God asked Eve why she bit the fruit and her immediate response is to deflect the blame to Adam. You can look it up.
Well, yeah, the dog had plenty of frozen meat.
They say that Mount Washington in New Hampshire (6000 ft) is the deadliest mountain in the U.S. and one of the deadliest in the world. The problem it is always one climatic zone colder on top than at the base, it is near densely populated urban areas, New York and Boston, specifically, with a lot of warm meat yearning to be frozen. People start up it on a warm day in October with sneakers and maybe a sweater, get lost and freeze to death. Cell phones have cut down on fatalities, but the New Hampshire authories want to charge people for rescues occasioned by utter recklessness.
Why didn’t he fashion some sort of sledge and bring her down the mountain with him?
He probably didn’t have the capability to get her down without her participation. Maybe they could’ve been better prepared with a rescue beacon or something, assuming such things are legal in Austria. Maybe stay and try to look after her. But if there was no other way to get help and he couldn’t get her down, It’s tragic, but it happens. Also, assuming the woman is over 18, she’s an adult, and she made the decision to climb a mountain..
Similar to the rope cutting dilemma
33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner and her more experienced boyfriend, 39-year-old Thomas Plamberger attempted a winter ascent of Grossglockner (Austria's highest peak at 12,461 feet via the challenging Stüdlgrat route. They started late on the morning of January 18, 2025, faced extreme conditions (temperatures around -4 F and strong winds), and reached near the summit that night.
Around midnight, Gurtner became severely exhausted and hypothermic, unable to continue. Plamberger left her unprotected about 200 feet below the summit around 2 a.m. on January 19 to descend and seek help. She froze to death overnight, and her body was recovered the next morning.
The couple did not carry substantial survival gear suitable for an unplanned overnight bivouac in extreme winter conditions on Grossglockner. They DID have emergency blankets (aluminum foil rescue blankets) and at least one bivouac sack (a lightweight emergency shelter bag, sometimes described as a "bivouac sleeping bag"); basic climbing equipment (crampons, ice axes, harnesses, rope, headlamps, etc.), and Kerstin used a splitboard with soft snowboard boots (deemed unsuitable by prosecutors).
They did not have proper sleeping bags, stove or cooking equipment, significant food supplies for extended survival (reports focus on inadequate emergency provisions overall).
She's hypothermic, exhausted and he leaves her? He could have carried her down the mountain a bit to get into some trees. Didn't he know you strip down and go skin-to-skin to warm the hypothermic person, get in the bivouac sack and cover yourself with the aluminum survival blanket? Tear off some fir or pine tree boughs and cover yourself in them. You do NOT leave that person behind.
If she would have walked out seeking help, and he were found dead, the story would be about her bravery and survival story. She’d probably get a medal and a book deal.
Because otherwise I am not seeing it.
Incident:
In January 2025, Thomas Plamberger and his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner were on an overnight winter ascent of the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest mountain.
Gurtner, who was a novice at high-altitude climbing, became exhausted and hypothermic near the summit. Plamberger reportedly left her to go for help.
Allegations: Prosecutors have charged Plamberger with gross negligent manslaughter, alleging he made several critical errors.
He allegedly failed to make an emergency call for hours, did not signal a passing helicopter, and later put his phone on silent, missing calls from rescue services.
He also allegedly left Gurtner in an exposed spot without using available emergency gear like a bivouac sack or rescue blankets to protect her from the cold.
Incident:
In January 2025, Thomas Plamberger and his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner were on an overnight winter ascent of the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest mountain.
Gurtner, who was a novice at high-altitude climbing, became exhausted and hypothermic near the summit. Plamberger reportedly left her to go for help.
Allegations: Prosecutors have charged Plamberger with gross negligent manslaughter, alleging he made several critical errors.
He allegedly failed to make an emergency call for hours, did not signal a passing helicopter, and later put his phone on silent, missing calls from rescue services.
He also allegedly left Gurtner in an exposed spot without using available emergency gear like a bivouac sack or rescue blankets to protect her from the cold.
Not his fault. He went off to get help, not to abandon her.
A Woman Froze to Death on an Alpine Trek. Is Her Boyfriend to Blame?
Woman is frigid. Yeah, blame the man.
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Do you know when and where in Colorado this happened?
When I was in the Air Force reserves I was at the base for a weekend when a Blizzard hit.
I had just pulled out of the driveway and driven down the road for maybe 30 seconds when suddenly it was a complete whiteout.
It took me nearly 1/2 an hour to find my way back to the driveway that was less than 100 yards away.
If I had left 5 minutes sooner I would have been stuck out in the countryside for six days.
Should he have stayed and died with her?
Should he have tried to drag her behind him?
And anyway, the woman was an adult. She made the decision to go on that dangerous adventure. If she was unprepared, it's her fault, not his.
Was she nagging him?
Same thing probably happened to Ötzi and his girlfriend except the other way around. She left him to go get help.