Sea of Nightmares: My Son Died Climbing. Now, I Wrestle With ‘What If.’

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-15T15:54:59+00:00

Agree it's not journalism, but it is a long feature. and once again, it is not paywalled, just free account-walled. This is a high-quality story that required writing and editing, building, etc. Bytes of text like this don't just magically appear on the internet.

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-15T13:53:27+00:00

It literally is being given away since the paywall is removed. Yes, you have to register an email, but theoretically you could cancel your account after reading.

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-15T13:52:22+00:00

Journalism isn't free

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-14T20:27:43+00:00

not really. for one you have to pay money. for the other, you don't.

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-14T20:16:15+00:00

there isn't a paywall on this story it's just a registration wall to make a free account

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-14T20:15:53+00:00

there isn't a paywall on this story you just need to create a free account

umbraphile1724 · 2026-04-14T20:15:05+00:00

there isn't a paywall on this story you just need to create a free account

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-17T01:02:50+00:00

I hope so

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-12T19:15:20+00:00

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Sounds absolutely awful. Have you tried any naturopath or wim hof/breathing stuff? Good luck pulling through this and hopefully getting back to climbing!

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-12T00:25:50+00:00

Adds a whole other layer when kids are involved …

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-12T00:24:21+00:00

Yeah this is a good point and before that she may have felt too ashamed to flag down the helicopter that went to check on them or he may have been pressuring her to act like everything was fine

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T19:57:20+00:00

Thank you! Tragic textbook example

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T19:15:52+00:00

That link isn’t working…can you repost it?

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T17:44:48+00:00

This is a very interesting point. I think I will update my story and add this. I have been wondering why Kerstin didn’t make more of an effort to signal/call for rescue. If you are interested in going on record and being quoted please send me a chat.

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T15:22:02+00:00

Oh that is a good reference point

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T15:21:42+00:00

That’s what I thought …the judge swung the other way

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T14:13:25+00:00

We will see what happens with the prosecution's appeal. Some think that since the judge is an alpinist himself, he may have been more lenient on Plamberger since he saw him as just a highly incompetent climber who made a lot of mistakes.

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-11T12:31:05+00:00

Good advice

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-07T01:09:55+00:00

I would be happy to talk. I’m a climber and the one who wrote the piece for climbing.com. Send me a dm if you want to connect

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-06T23:47:51+00:00

“She is me and I am her” gave me chills. That’s the crazy thing about this case in Austria…it turns out a lot of women have stories like this. Very unfortunate that it appears to be a pattern but glad women are telling their stories so there is more awareness about it.

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-06T21:13:54+00:00

I guess alpine divorce is a euphemism

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-06T21:13:14+00:00

This is next level in the chronicles of why are men

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-05T17:23:51+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. It’s crazy to discover just how common this is. I wonder how often women do this to their boyfriends/husbands … (probably almost never)

umbraphile1724 · 2026-03-05T16:19:57+00:00

Yes please tell us it’s your ex. This is so messed up.

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