Okay, so, with the amount of evidence at hand, how do y’all judge? All I know is that if I accidentally caused or was part of an innocent person’s death, I would avoid anything related to it, not just out of fear it could happen again but out of trauma. Why did this happen twice? It’s pretty clear to me.
“Yeah, I love the outdoors! Hey, for our first date, would you like to go hiking? I know a place really well, and everybody I’ve taken enjoyed it and was alive last I saw them. Haha.”
They will also claim at the trial that Plamberger and Gurtner were stranded from around 8.50pm, and he allegedly did not give any distress signals when a police helicopter flew over at 10.50pm. After several attempts by the Alpine Police, he finally spoke to an officer at around 12.35am. Officials say he had put his phone on silent and could not be contacted by Alpine Police, but eventually, at 3.30am, he decided to notify the rescue services after having left Gurtner alone.
I think he will be convicted. If I was the judge hearing the case, I would like to hear clear justifications for these events.
Gurtner hanging by the rope could be explained with things that people do before hypothermia kills them - freezing people can do stranger things than wandering off a cliff. But not using thermal blankets - which is how it came to happen that she froze - indicates negligence. Combined with not contacting rescue services, I would also suspect willful negligent homicide.
P.S. He was convicted of gross negligence. The prison sentence of 5 months is suspended, a large fine has to be paid.
This reminds me of Michael Peterson (The Staircase) failing to mention to his lawyer while under investigation for the murder of his wife (who was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell) that a previous wife also died by falling down stairs.
"Hey, it worked last time … "
Well that just sounds like you’re feeding women to the mountain
How else to appease the eldritch spirit therein?
That’s…suspicious…
Well, it kind of is, but if I’m a mountaineer, and I mingle with other mountaineers, and I’m up a mountain, and a mate gets into a bad situation, where helping her/him, is going to be really life threatening to me, sorry, but my self preservation instinct will kick in. A second time? Well, yeah kind of suspicious, but could also be bad luck.
The mountain, as the sea, don’t give a fuck about you, and if you don’t respect them, you’ll get what you bargained for.
Don’t know much about this case, but that it has occurred twice appears to be pretty damning. Yikes.
“That’s not many, but it is strange it happened twice”
Holy shit, that website can kiss my ass. I hate when sites hijack the back button.
Also, this story shows he is either negligently stupid, intentionally covering up an accident that he thought might implicate him, or intentionally malicious. Some of the mistakes are pretty damning for someone who had made this climb 14 or 15 times. The timeline is suspicious, too. I have no idea if he did anything intentionally, but he certainly made many very bad mistakes that could together constitute criminal negligence in my head.
That’s daily mail for you, UK’s tabloid akin to the New York Post.
Daily Mail is crap.
Ew, DailyMail? On the one hand the tabloids sure knows how to drive engagement, and I like to encourage engagement on Lemmy to help it grow…
…on the other hand, ew DailyMail.
Ty for this.
I appreciate the intent, but I’m getting paywalled and can see neither video nor article.
JV;DR (just video;didn’t read)
I think there’s a video at the top (which I didn’t watch), but it’s an entire article.
This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like punitive tattoos should be a thing. The first time this guy left a woman on the top of a mountain he should have gotten that tattooed on his forehead.
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