/int/ - International

1. The woman's inexperience and challenging winter conditions: The defendant undertook the tour to the Großglockner via the Stüdlgrat in winter “despite the woman's inexperience, as she had never undertaken an alpine tour of this length, difficulty, and altitude, and despite the challenging winter conditions.” 2. Started too late: The defendant is accused of setting the start of the tour about two hours too late when planning the tour. This had also been repeatedly criticized by mountain guides. 3. No emergency bivouac equipment carried: According to the public prosecutor's office, the defendant “did not anticipate an emergency when planning the tour, so he did not carry sufficient emergency bivouac equipment.” 4. Allowing his girlfriend to undertake the Glockner tour with unsuitable splitboard and snowboard soft boots: The defendant “allowed his girlfriend to use a splitboard and snowboard soft boots, which are not suitable equipment for a high-alpine tour in mixed terrain.” 5. Failure to turn back in time: The defendant is accused of having “had to turn back at the latest at the so-called ‘Frühstücksplatzl’ in view of the strong to stormy winds with wind speeds of up to 74 km/h and a temperature of approximately minus 8 degrees, which, taking into account the wind chill effect, leads to a perceived temperature of minus 20 degrees.” 6. Emergency call not made in time: The defendant failed to “make an emergency call in good time before nightfall.” 7. No distress signals sent to the helicopter: Although the defendant and his girlfriend were effectively unable to continue at around 8:50 p.m., he “still did not make an emergency call and did not send any distress signals when a police helicopter flew overhead at around 10:50 p.m., but waited until 3:30 a.m. to notify the rescue services.” 8. No longer reachable: After several attempts by the alpine police to contact the defendant, the accused called an alpine police officer for the first time at 12:35 a.m. “Although the content of the conversation remains unclear, the defendant did not contact the rescue services again. He set his phone to silent and put it away, and therefore did not answer any further calls from the Alpine police.” 9. Failure to care for his girlfriend: The defendant also failed to move his girlfriend to a place that was as sheltered from the wind as possible in order to protect her from heat loss. “Before leaving his girlfriend behind at around 2:00 a.m., the defendant did not use her bivouac sack or the aluminum rescue blankets available to protect her from further cooling down, nor did he take off her heavy backpack and splitboard.”