A man has been charged with murder after his girlfriend burst to death in an Austrian mountain – national
A man faces charges of gross negligence after allegedly leaving his girlfriend alone on Austria’s highest mountain, where she later died.
Thomas Plamberger, 36, was trying to scale the peak of Grossglockner with his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner, 33, on Jan. 19 When he began to suffer from hypothermia and fatigue, according to the prosecutor’s office of the hair prosecutor.
“About 2:00 in the morning, the defendant left his girlfriend unprotected, tired, hypothermic, and collapsed about 50 meters below the cross of the Grossglockner summit.
Plumberger had always had a high-altitude trip with the Alpine High-Alliseture trip and had planned an hour “and” was considered the guide responsible for the tour, “according to the press release.
The public prosecutor’s office of Innsbruck accused Pllerber of “several mistakes,” including “the woman’s inexperience” and “challenging winter conditions.”
“Despite the woman’s lack of fitness, who had never done the Alpine High-Altitude Tour of la made, and despite the high winter conditions,” the prosecutors proposed a trip to Stüdlgrat with her in the winter, “said the prosecutors.
Plumberger was also accused of starting to climb “two hours too much as part of planning the tour” and not carrying “adequate bivouac equipment.”
“The defendant allowed his girlfriend to use splitboard boots and soft snow boots, thus using equipment that is not suitable for high-level cross-country touring,” the office added.
Another mistake of the prosecutor’s office blames the plumbergers for not turning back in time.
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“With a strong view of the wind blowing in the wind it accelerates up to 74 km / h and the temperature of the influence of 8 degrees, which leads to a feeling of coldness of degrees of almost 20 degrees, said the prosecutor.
Plumberger failed to make an emergency call in time before sunset and did not make distress signals to the helicopter, according to the prosecutor’s office.
“Although the defendant and his girlfriend could not continue their journey from about 8:50 PM, but they did not do anything urgent and did not give emergency signals when they left with the helicopter at 10:50 PM,” the press release said.
After several attempts by alpine police to contact plumberger, he finally called an officer at 12:35, prosecutors said.
“Although the content of the conversation remains unclear, the defendant did not contact the rescue services again. He had put his phone on silent and hung up, so he did not receive any calls from the Alpine police,” they added.
Plumberger was also accused of ‘failing to feed his girlfriend’ after he “failed to move his girlfriend to a safe place to protect her from heat loss.”
“Before leaving his girlfriend around 2:00 in the morning, he did not use his bivouac sacks or emergency blankets to protect himself from further cooling, and he did not remove his backpack, and did not separate it,” prosecutors said.
The public prosecutor’s office of Innsbruck said that the background medical report was obtained, and mobile phones, gurtner and plumberger sports watch logs, photos, videos and alpine technical tests were all organized as part of the investigation.
Murder by gross negligence is punishable by up to three years in prison, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Plumberger submitted a written statement during the ongoing investigation, denying any wrongdoing.
He also paid tribute to his late girlfriend, Gurtner, in an Instagram post that has since been released, saying her death was “very heartbreaking.”
“I miss you so much. It hurts so much. Forever in my heart. Without you, time is meaningless,” he wrote, each one not paying attention.
Plumberger moved to start the case in February at the District Court of Nennsbruck.
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