here's to trying new things.. like backcountry touring🤭❄️ I just spent three amazing days with in Switzerland learning how to splitboard (which has been on my bucket list for years). It's not just skinning up and riding down, there's so much to kno...

Whole thing is a logistical exercise to get non climbers to the summit, all sounds fucking ghastly. Give me a quiet gully and a splitboard to get me down any day

Habe ich jetzt das Splitboard anfangs Woche doch zu früh eingesommert? 🤔

Backcountry en Huayna Potosí a 6.088 mts. nevasport.com/chile/art/7083… #freeride #reportajes #splitboard

Nacimiento y auge del splitboard, el invento que permite hacer esquí de montaña en snowboard lugaresdenieve.com/?q=es/not…

You do you. Just did my splitboard lunch now. Thinking I am just gonna roll back down again. No snowboard needed

Deliberate choice of bad footwear, forcing her to carry a splitboard he knew they couldn’t use on that climb, but that would have weighed her down and made her colder. Biggest reasons are the fact that he took her phone when his was working, the fact that he waved off the chopper when she was clearly struggling badly, the fact that he chose not to use the emergency blankets, and the fact that he abandoned a woman in the same way previously who survived. Oh, and the fact that he called rescue, made it seem not urgent, and then put his phone on silent. When you call rescue, you don’t do that: people in emergency situations WANT to talk to rescuers. They want the reassurance

It’s been a couple of days, and I’ve read more about the Plamberger case, but instead of changing my initial assessment, everything I’ve learned only increases my certainty that this was a planned and deliberate homicide. The single biggest piece of behavioral evidence is the fact that P. had already abandoned one gf on the same mountain during a night climb. The woman’s headlamp was out, and she reported that she was screaming and crying as he left. Abandoning one person might be misjudgement. Abandoning two people in such similar circumstances? That’s a pattern. You have two night hikes, two less experienced gfs, two abandonments, on the same mountain. Coincidences like that don’t happen. There’s also evidence of evolution in his MO to ensure lethality: the fact that the victim was less experienced than the first woman he abandoned; the snowboarding boots that would have made her climb harder; the useless splitboard, which would have worked like an anchor and channelled cold into her; the lack of rations; and the fact that he left her exposed on the ridge, probably unconscious, with no attempt to use either the emergency blankets or the other gear they were carrying, or even to move her to a more sheltered position. Most damning of all, in my opinion, is the fact that he took her cellphone with him when he left. He didn’t deploy the blankets, but he did take her phone — even though he knew his was working, because rescue services had been trying to reach him for hours. I tend to think that his doing so means that she was unconscious when he left her, and he took it to prevent her from calling for help if she did wake up, but he might also have lied and told her that his wasn’t working. If she was unconscious, he was probably the one who removed her gloves and loosened her boots; I think this most likely, as it would have been difficult for her to do the latter herself while wearing her pack and the splitboard, both of which she had on when she was found. This case really bothers me. I’m pretty sure that he got away with murder, and I wouldn’t be remotely surprised to hear that he’d done something similar in the future. Sexual sadists don’t rehabilitate, and he’s going to feel invulnerable after this ruling.

I’m not talking just about what he did on the mountain, although the fact that this is the second woman he’s abandoned on the exact same mountain does a lot to poke holes in the “he just made a mistake” argument just by itself. I’m talking about the totality of the behavioral evidence — and while you may have been involved in a serious mountain drama, I’m a homicide investigator with 8 years’ experience in one of the United States’ most violent cities. Consider: this man is a mountaineering expert. He’s been up this mountain before, as we know, and abandoned a previous girlfriend (after dark with her headlamp out) after expressing displeasure at her slow progress. He knows how hard this climb is even for an expert, but he decides that this should be his new gf’s first experience. Fine - I can buy that. What I can’t buy is that this meticulous, controlling man fails to notice that his gf is wearing snowboarding boots, or that he fails to realize how much more difficult that would make things. That’s not all. He also insists that she carry a splitboard, which is worse than useless: in addition to being totally inappropriate for the terrain (which he knows, because he’s been up this mountain before) the board adds weight to her heavy pack, and makes her colder. “Carrying a snowboard is like carrying an anchor,” one climber told the BBC, and Plamberger would have known that, too. They set out two hours late, reportedly with nothing by way of rations but gummi bears, and by 2200, she is in such bad shape that when rescue choppers are dispatched to aid them, in 5 minutes’ observation, she only moves about 20-22 cm. They’re only about 1k feet from where they were seen at 1330, indicating significant and ongoing difficulties, which contradicts his statement that she was fine until 2230. Plamberger waves the chopper away. At 0035, he calls for rescue, but without communicating any urgency. He then puts his phone on vibrate and ignores repeated calls from rescue services as the conditions continue to deteriorate. When he does abandon her, he makes no effort to aid her in any way. He doesn’t move her to a more sheltered area, much less use the emergency blankets or bivouac sack they were carrying. He doesn’t even take off her pack or the splitboard that would have been making her even colder. Instead, he leaves her on the open ridgeline, unprotected and hypothermic, and doesn’t call for help again until 0330, in spite of numerous attempts by rescuers to contact him. Additionally, her boots were open and her gloves off when she was found. (That’s inconclusive, but I find it hard to believe that she would try remove her boots before taking off her pack.)

There’s no way to force someone to climb at gunpoint when you need your hands to help you up the mountain. He didn’t need a weapon; he just bullied her into it. She was a novice, never climbed before. She may have had no idea that she needed different boots, or perhaps he told her it wouldn’t make a difference if she just wore the boots she already had. My guess, based on testimony from the first woman he did this to is that he harangued and berated her into continuing until she lost consciousness, relishing every minute of her suffering. He even made her carry a splitboard, which they had no need for and was worse than useless: it added unnecessary weight and made her even colder.

I doubt very much that she was even conscious when he left her. He set her up to die. She was a novice climber, while he’s an expert. He had her in snowboarding boots, which would have made the climb far more difficult, carrying a splitboard which was totally unnecessary (but would have made her significantly colder). When he left her “to go for help,” he did nothing to help her stay warm, even though they had blankets and warming equipment. He did take her phone, He didn’t even try to move her into shelter. He did take her phone, though, and turned his own phone on silent when rescue was calling him to see if they needed help. Oh. and he finished climbing the mountain before descending to get that help. Finally, this isn’t the first time he abandoned a girlfriend on that mountain under adverse circumstances for reasons that had nothing to do with saving his own life This was a deliberate homicide, and he enjoyed every minute of it.

He also made her wear snowboarding boots, which would have made the climb far more difficult, and to carry a totally unnecessary splitboard, a snowboard that splits into skis, which added weight and made her colder. He left her still encumbered by it, gloveless, and almost certainly unconscious

I kind of like faffing about for 10 minutes with my skins sticking to each other. Wild to see how fast they rip them off in races. I also want a splitboard mountaineering event to see how fast they can slap the boards together.

Depuis 2005, l’entreprise Plum s’est spécialisée dans la fabrication de fixations de skis de randonnée et de splitboard. Une production dont la particularité repose sur une fabrication majoritairement locale. Les coulisses avec ce reportage signé @MeurChloe.

突然对splitboard疯狂心动，好想去滑backcountry啊希望明年可以去

When she says she isnt that good at snowboarding but then she absolutely rips and admits she used to ride splitboard backcountry, then names all 30 MLB teams by division

Moi: utilise le même snowboard pendant 10 ans Aussi moi: Achète 2 snowboards en 2 semaines! Bien hâte d'essayer ça 🙂 Hier j'ai privilégié ma blonde parce qu'elle aussi elle a un nouveau splitboard qu'elle voulait rider, pis y faisait un peu frette pour faire d'la chaise!

I’m seeing double. 👀👀 (I loved how my splitboard rides downhill so much that I decided to replace my all-rounder resort board with the exact same model as a solid board)

Split The Peak returns to Jay Peak on Saturday, February 7, a touring-focused splitboard demo built for snowboarders ready to earn their turns and learn how to move uphill with purpose. jaypeakresort.com/events

kevan guitar spotted going up the mountains on his splitboard. please beware and exerce caution when approaching. avoid all contact and backaway slowly if encountered