{"id":39853,"date":"2026-02-21T02:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39853"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:03:41","slug":"climber-who-left-girlfriend-to-freeze-to-death-on-top-of-mountain-details-final-conversation-they-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39853","title":{"rendered":"Climber who \u2018left girlfriend to freeze to death&#8217; on top of mountain details final conversation they had"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A climber who is accused of leaving his girlfriend to die at the top of the mountain has revealed what their last conversation was.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/crime\/mountain-climber-court-case-austria-022615-20260219\">Thomas Plamberger,<\/a>\u00a039, is in court in Innsbruck after he was charged with gross negligent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/crime\">manslaughter<\/a>, following the death of his girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner, 33.Gurtner tragically died 150ft below the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/world-news\">Grossglockner\u00a0<\/a>mountain\u2019s 12,460ft summit on January 19, 2025.Plamberger has pleaded not guilty, after his girlfriend, a much less experienced climber, died after freezing near the top of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/us-news\/tour-company-statement-nine-skiers-missing-avalanche-frog-lake-935315-20260218\">mountain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A climber who is accused of leaving his girlfriend to die at the top of the mountain has revealed what their last conversation was. Thomas Plamberger,\u00a039, is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":190,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39855,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853\/revisions\/39855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}