The article mentions, briefly, the case of the Austrian who was recently convicted of manslaughter for abandoning his girlfriend on the side of a mountain.
The story is apparently much much worse than it sounds from the brief coverage.
There were, apparently, many many signs that things were not going well: beginning the hike too late in the day; passing a sign that said "do not continue if you have not reached this point by X time", despite reaching it hours later; Waving off a rescue helicopter; putting his phone in DND mode.
A former girlfriend testified that he has done basically the same thing to her years earlier, on the same mountain.
It is a shame articles like this imply that all men act this way, rather than a small subset of men. A better framing (avoiding psych words) might be "arseholes".
Does the concept of gentleman no longer exist?
Mind you, I have no expectations of quality reporting from The Guardian.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 18.9 ms ] threadThe story is apparently much much worse than it sounds from the brief coverage.
Rebecca Watson did a video on it recently: https://youtu.be/zf6rUxqrDes
There were, apparently, many many signs that things were not going well: beginning the hike too late in the day; passing a sign that said "do not continue if you have not reached this point by X time", despite reaching it hours later; Waving off a rescue helicopter; putting his phone in DND mode.
A former girlfriend testified that he has done basically the same thing to her years earlier, on the same mountain.
Does the concept of gentleman no longer exist?
Mind you, I have no expectations of quality reporting from The Guardian.
It's not implying that at all.