According to reports in the Austrian media, the court heard how the mountain rescue team found Kerstin’s body hanging upside down from a rock face.<\/p>\n
One of the rescuers told the court she had her rucksack on and her head was tilted back.<\/p>\n
Her eyes were wide open, she wasn’t wearing gloves, and her boots were open, he said.<\/p>\n
“We were amazed that she remained in that position.” If the wind had been any stronger, “she would have fallen over the south face”.<\/p>\n
The prosecution said there were strong winds of up to 74 km\/h (45 mph), and was very cold. It was -8C, with a windchill temperature of -20C, they said.<\/p>\n
They argued that as the more experienced climber, Thomas P was “the responsible guide for the tour”. <\/p>\n
They said he failed to turn back or call for help in time to help his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Thomas P should never have allowed himself to get into this situation, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
Thomas P pleaded not guilty. He told the court he was deeply sorry. He said he had loved his girlfriend, who was very sporty and that they had planned the trip together.<\/p>\n
His lawyer Kurt Jelinek said the couple had found themselves in a really difficult and stressful situation.<\/p>\n
He said Kerstin was not inexperienced and knew what she was getting into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports in the Austrian media, the court heard how the mountain rescue team found Kerstin’s body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-435725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}