i come down to the breakfast table, groggy and uncoordinated as i pour a bowl of cereal, and begin telling you about an incredibly stupid dream i just had where people were abandoning each other deep in the forest and calling it "Alpine Divorce." which is crazy. but the camera slowly pans over to a morning newspaper...

on the one hand, the premise as suggested in these headlines is not really an observable phenomenon that's happening, per the actual reporting.

but on the other hand, several years ago i did this to soft on Larch Mountain in the middle of January when it was icy as shit and its one of our most beloved & treasured memories.

@jackdaw_ruiz while that guy in Austria is the cause for it being a headline, there are A Lot of anecdotes on Reddit from women (or hikers and climbers who found women on trails) where they were ditched in the wilderness by a man who wanted to go faster/reach a specific goal and/or underestimated the treachery of the terrain/didn't adequately communicate the skill level/supplies needed beforehand
@jackdaw_ruiz more reasons to encourage women to hike alone! much safer to plan on being your only support from the start + I want everyone to know you don't need a man to enjoy hiking