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.
The 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.