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Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Her mom's issue is the media and courts treated her daughter like a lost sheep led up a mountain.
She was an experienced climber and they planned their trips together.
He didn't take the emergency supplies, he just didn't swaddle her like a baby in her own.
The helicopter call stuff was kind of shady tho, and rightfully why he was found guilty.
But it's not like the mom said he was innocent, she said it was likely an accident, because procedure in climbs like that is to leave someone behind, and she knew that because her daughter had been doing this long before the boyfriend.
But her comments got misrepresented for the headlines.
It all makes logical sense, it's just the people telling us about it care more about drama and clicks than informing people.
If you understand it, it becomes an incredibly boring story that doesn't stand out. Which is why TikTok went the complete opposite direction, and mainstream media is reporting on their nonsense for the clicks.
Quick edit:
Specifically for the emergency blanket part, the last stages of hypothermia makes you feel insanely hot.
The early stages cut off circulation to limbs to keep the torso warm, that's why frostbite effects the extremities, it's a trade off. When you're going to die from it, you're body can't squeeze you're arties off and all that "warm" blood floods to your limbs, causing them to quickly rise in temp while the vital parts get cold.
So she likely was bundled up just fine when he left her.
That's all normal stuff climbers know, but the media/courts seemed to be willfully ignorant of.
All the articles I've read say he never applied the emergency blanket, it was still packed away. Nor did he make her safe by building any kind of shelter or securing her against wind.
And then he also did not call for help until three hours after they decided they needed help, and rejected the helicopter rescue. None of those are normal things. Those are the actions of someone abandoning someone to die.
Which is why he was found guilty of manslaughter
And those bad decisions may likely be due to stress/incompetence. Something that happens, but again that's what makes it manslaughter.
If you're ignorant of the realities of alpine mountaineering I could understand why you believe that.
The dead woman's mom wasn't ignorant of it tho, that's why she keeps saying it wasn't murder.
How experienced are you with cold weather mountain climbing?
I grew up doing it.
Well, then you don't have an excuse
Neither do you.
Yes...
People that know about something....
Don't have the excuse of being ignorant of it...
But I'm glad something about this is starting to click for people, 22 hours is still less than a day I guess