More than a year after a 33-year-old woman froze to death on Austria’s highest mountain, her boyfriend goes on trial on Thursday accused of gross negligent manslaughter.
Kerstin G died of hypothermia on a mountain climbing trip to the Grossglockner that went horribly wrong. Her boyfriend is accused of leaving her unprotected and exhausted close to the summit in stormy conditions in the early hours of 19 January 2025, while he went to get help.
The trial has sparked interest and debate, not just in Austria but in mountain climbing communities far beyond its borders.
At one point the article calls her his client but never explicitly states if he was acting in any professional sense or not (it seems not).The case against him seems to mostly be that apparently she had no responsibility for herself?If he was acting in a professional capacity that might hold but otherwise seems flimsy.The article doesn’t call the dead woman the client of her boyfriend, it calls the boyfriend the client of the defence attorney.
Ahh thanks, my bad, misread that.