Episode

The Grossglockner Case That Changed Alpine Law | Disaster Strikes E239

Podcast: The CRUX: True Survival Stories
Published: Jun 4, 2026
Duration seconds: 1942
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Summary

On a freezing January night in 2025, Thomas Plamberger descended Austria's highest mountain alone, leaving his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner — exhausted, hypothermic, and just fifty meters from the summit — behind in the dark. By morning, she was dead, and a question the alpine world had never had to answer in court was suddenly on trial.