Valeriya Safronova in NYT: ‘Though this was an extreme case, Ms. Peiker said she often comes across women who are alone on mountain paths because their partners are hiking ahead. So she wasn’t surprised when, during the past weeks, women on Reddit, Instagram and TikTok began sharing stories of being left behind by their partners while hiking, biking and climbing in nature, calling it “Alpine divorce.”’

And: ‘“It’s almost like a Rorschach test,” Dr. [Sabrina] Romanoff said. “The issue isn’t the mountain, but the mind-set the person is bringing to the relationship and how they’re handling power and empathy and responsibility.”’

Also: ‘In February, Thomas Plamberger, 37, was found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter for leaving his girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner, 33, to die of hypothermia on Austria’s highest mountain, the Grossglockner.’

We’ll always have Paris? No, no, no. Those were the days.

We’ll always have the Alps.

(a sf 2104)