My ex did this to me. I got heat stroke and she left me behind on the mountain. Wanted to get back to the truck for cell service cuz addicted to phone and didn’t want to wait for me.
I spent hours sitting by an alpine stream filtering and drinking water and I ended up hiking out in the dark while occasionally projectile vomiting. It’s the first time and only time I thought about pressing my garmin SOS button.
In 2026, Thomas Plamberger, a climber in Austria, was convicted of manslaughter after he left his girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner, near the summit of the Grossglockner, where she died from hypothermia.
Smells like alpine divorce.
My ex did this to me. I got heat stroke and she left me behind on the mountain. Wanted to get back to the truck for cell service cuz addicted to phone and didn’t want to wait for me.
I spent hours sitting by an alpine stream filtering and drinking water and I ended up hiking out in the dark while occasionally projectile vomiting. It’s the first time and only time I thought about pressing my garmin SOS button.
There was a crazy case of this in Austria last year.
Yup. In the Wiki: