There are no confirmed cases of anybody trying to do this. The term Alpine divorce itself comes from a late 1800s fiction book of the same name by Robert Barr which is where TikTok got this scenario from. The big real life “case” that revived the term into relevancy was that of an Austrian couple who went on a winter hike on Grossglockner mountain in January 2025. The woman was a less experienced hiker than the man was and became exhausted near the summit. He ran to seek help nearby but she soon succumbed to her exhaustion. The court ruled that “As the more experienced climber”, he had a duty to “do more” to save her and found him guilty of gross negligent manslaughter, ultimately sentencing him to 5 months in prison in February 2026. Women spun this into him trying to kill her.

In reality, society is simply enraged by the fact that a woman died and a man survived. If two women, or if two men, went on a hike together and one died, society would simply see it as a tragedy because they are actually seen as two equals. Even if a woman pushed a man off a mountain, feminists would invoke “battered woman syndrome” AKA the “reasonable woman standard” (the idea that it’s okay for women to leave relationships in murderous ways) to defend her.

PSA: A man cannot “abandon” a grown-ass woman. Men are not responsible for women. Men have the right to walk away from women. No one is challenging women’s right to walk away from men. If a man claimed his woman abandoned him on a trail, women would call him a manchild. This is a one-sided attack from women to men.

Women’s framing of this as murder shows how they will so readily smear the collective image of men just for fun.

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