The tragic death of a 33-year-old alpinist from frostbite on Austria’s highest mountain continues to shock. While the police and the judiciary are investigating the friend (36), the ‘Kroon’ started looking for clues. The Salzburger, who left his girlfriend alone at the top, apparently knows almost every stone on the Großglockner.
The 36-year-old, whose rope partner famously froze to death just below the summit of the Großglockner on the Stüdlgrat on Sunday evening, still cannot be questioned. As reported, the police are investigating the man on suspicion of manslaughter by negligence.
According to the council, the results of the toxicological-histological report as part of the autopsy of the deceased are still pending.
About 40 four-thousanders in the travel book
The Salzburg resident (name known to the editors) reveals a lot about himself as an extreme mountain climber on various social networks. If you follow the numerous posts, his (alpinist’s) life mainly consists of ice, steep walls and gullies, which he also likes to ski on. There are about 40 four-thousanders in his travel book.
The Großglockner seems to represent a special passion for the 36-year-old. He should know the mountain inside and out. According to his own statements, he climbed the Pallavicinirinne, the Aschenbrennerführunge and the Mayerl ramp on the north side. The outstanding alpinist has also already completed the solo crossing of the Großglockner.
On Glockner with a partner without 3000 experience
The terrible tragedy took place on the Stüdlgrat. According to his reports, the 36-year-old knows this climbing route (lower fourth level of difficulty in winter) well. And on this route he took rope partners who were doing this for the first time.
According to his own information, in 2022 the Salzburger also took a travel partner, for whom peaks of three thousand meters were new territory until then, to the highest peak in Austria (3,798 m). It is not known whether the 33-year-old from Salzburg, who tragically died just below the summit this weekend, had Glockner or mountaineering experience in such terrain. Her death still raises many questions.
Glockner was a ‘training mountain’ for alpinists
The 36-year-old probably regarded Austria’s highest peak as a kind of ‘training mountain’. This is evident from a message from the summer of 2024. “Tomorrow I will visit it again, the highest in Austria,” he writes. And talks about ‘leadership’ and ‘training for Switzerland’.
His girlfriend, who died this weekend, says: “At some point”…
Source: Krone
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