US EditionAustrian court convicts man whose girlfriend died as they climbed the country’s highest mountain
Thomas P. was sentenced to a five-month suspended prison term and fined €9,600 for grossly negligent manslaughter after his girlfriend died of hypothermia on a winter climb.
- An Austrian court found a mountaineer guilty of manslaughter over his girlfriend's death from cold after he left her to fetch help near Austria's highest summit.
- The trial raised questions about legal liability in the dangerous high mountains, which climbers explore at their own risk.
- The defendant, who pleaded not guilty, told the court he was 'so terribly sorry'.
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Following the verdict of a 37-year-old whose girlfriend is frozen on the mountain, former extreme mountaineer Peter Habeler (83) talks to Conny Bischofberger about personal responsibility and cohesion, the art of turning around and his summit victories – including the danger of life.
The climber convicted of abandoning his exhausted girlfriend on an Alpine peak had previously abandoned his ex-girlfriend at the same spot. “I was all alone and crying and screaming,” she testified during the trial, according to The Telegraph.
Climber found guilty of manslaughter after leaving girlfriend to die on Austria’s tallest mountain
A man has been found guilty of grossly negligent manslaughter after leaving his girlfriend, who was “galaxies” behind him in terms of climbing experience, to freeze to death on Austria’s tallest mountain last year, authorities said.
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