Austrian court rules mountaineer’s decision led to girlfriend’s death

Yesterday in Austria, a judge handed down a guilty verdict in the trial of a mountaineer, whose girlfriend froze to death near the summit of Grossglockner, the alpine country’s highest peak. The court found 37-year-old Thomas P. [they don’t disclose full names of those facing conviction] responsible for her death due to gross negligence. The case has sparked debate in Austria and the wider mountaineering community about what we owe our climbing partners. The World’s Host Marco Werman learns more from Antonia Rauth, a journalist at the Austrian newspaper Der Standard.