EP 126: "She Is Me, And I Am Her" — The Deadly Trend of Alpine Divorce

What started as a Victorian-era literary euphemism for murder on a mountain has become a hashtag, a warning, and for too many women — a lived experience. The term "alpine divorce" traces back to 1893 and Scottish author Robert Barr's fiction, where a husband plots to push his unhappy wife off a cliff in the Swiss Alps. The wife outsmarts him. Not everyone gets that ending.

In this episode, we dig into the deeply unsettling trend of partners — overwhelmingly men — abandoning, endangering, or outright attempting to kill their significant others in remote wilderness settings. From cases that made the headlines to firsthand accounts shared by women on Reddit, this episode covers the full, feral spectrum of what this "trend" actually looks like.

As u/whateverr-what-9876 put it: "She is me and I am her. Only that my case was in summer."

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Sources

Barr, R. (1893). An Alpine Divorce. In In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories. Stokes.

Plamberger, T. — Innsbruck Court ruling, 2025. Reported via Austrian press on the death of Kerstin Gurtner on the Grossglockner.

König, G. — Hawaii v. König. Guilty verdict, attempted manslaughter, 2025. Sentencing scheduled August 13, 2025.

Reddit — r/TrueOffMyChest. User accounts: u/KaleidoscopeCool1316, u/whateverr-what-9876, u/Slow_Concern_9882, u/Int-Merc805, u/Schweinkatze, u/PomeloPopper. Retrieved April 2026.