Alpine Divorce: A Hike That Ends a Relationship

I used to read the yearly accident review publication by the American Alpin Club.

Two very basic facts emerge:

- about a 25% of the accidents they list would not have been accidents if a helmet had been worn

- a significant number of incidents are caused by folks splitting up for some reason

The large point that I've take into later life: there's nothing special about me that exempts me from statistics.

So when I can I wear a helmet while climbing and never split the party in the mountains.

I suspect the "alpine divorce" phenomenon is the same desire to test influence dangerously attempted in a higher stakes environment. "No, let's go to this restaurant" becomes "Let's take this path" or "Let's take a break" and refusal to entertain tests of influence to alter the plan are recast as attempted murder.

https://twitter.com/JamesLNuzzo/status/2037859859585179746

Honestly this feels like a psyop. Like it's just meant to discourage people from wanting to do outdoors stuff together or going out into nature in general.

I've seen a lot of sensationalist articles lately about getting abandoned on hikes. A tiktok got shared to me about it, just some woman ranting in a touristy outdoors area about how she got ditched. Whose to say that even really happened? Almost certainly just pure engagement bait that's being spun into a "trend".

Not about Alpine linux, which I would imagine to end a relationship better than some mountains