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This is 100% true but there's difference between moral responsibility and legal one. If you hire a professional guide then they are legally responsible for you. If you have an accident while under their care they will have to prove that what happened was impossible to prevent. If the accident happened because they made a mistake it's on them. Legally.
If I go hiking with a group of friends it's completely different. I can be by far the most experienced one but everyone understands that we're are all equal members. They can ask me for recommendations but I can't give them any orders. If something happens I can feel guilty and everyone can be mad at me but legally speaking I wasn't responsible for anyone.
As I said, for me it's crazy to claim negligent here because he was not responsible for her. You can claim manslaughter (imagine we're driving in the middle of nowhere in winter, I tell to get out for a moment and abandon you. That's murder) or some sort of fraud (imagine I convince you I'm a professional mountain guide, show you false papers, claim I climbed Mt Everest and so on but I have no idea about climbing. and I did it in order to lure you into high mountains and abandon you). If they can prove something like this happened he's guilty. If it's just about being the more experienced one thus being legally responsible it's bullshit.
Current news cycle seems to be saying he something similar before. Do you still hold your position?
I never said he should be charged for manslaughter just that it seems unreasonable to completely discount it, especially by overemphasising her responsibility over his
I was referring to the news accusing him of "gross negligent manslaughter".
And yes, I still think that negligence doesn't make sense here. He wasn't legally responsible for anyone. He either murdered someone or he committed some sort of fraud.
Honestly, I think it's just sexist. I remember controversies around Adam Bielecki. He went climbing in the Alps with his friend and came back alone. He claimed they went as partners but some people suspected he was paid to go as a guide. There were no prosecution or anything even though he was way more experienced. The questions was always "was he there as a guide?". This wasn't obvious so there was no trial. Then he climbed Broad Peak with a climber that was for the first time in Himalayas. Bielecki went down faster, left the other guy alone and the guy died. And obviously there was no trial. There were some moral questions around it, a lot of hate for Bielecki from the climbing community but no one was even thinking about a trial. The other guy knew where he was going. I think here they are trying to make this guy responsible only because it was his girlfriend. If this happened to a pair of male climbers they would just say the guy is a bad climbing partner and no one should climb with him. But maybe I'm taking this too far...