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Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Co-opting alpine divorce, which regularly involves a murder attempt, feels weird? Just call it the sierra split.
I do wonder how much of this is a cheapening of the weekend getaway, where you'd go to a B&B upstate, find out your potential partner snores, drinks to much, is rude to service workers, or views a toothbrush as optional. You'd sigh and split. It's just a bad weekend.
But with this, camping and hiking is a complication. You're drinking warm filtered water from a Nalgene, eating granola because someone forgot to bring a lighter. Also, it's raining and all your socks are wet. Did you bring anything to wash dishes? Ah, there are no dishes. You smell like smoke and are covered in sand.
Granted, you can do camping/hiking well, but I'd bet some of these cases are from people doing it poorly, trying to save a buck by avoiding more expensive weekend getaways.
The article literally goes over a recent case where a man killed his girlfriend by leaving her in the wilderness on a hike.
But sure, I bet she died only because they realized they aren't compatible in a relationship.
Are you talking about the famous case? Where the guy declined the helicopter rescue, and later left his partner without being wrapped in a sheet to get help? That one sounds way more alpine than getting ditched on a crowded hike.
So no proof then. Guesses don't count.
Ok your honor I'm sure they'll follow the rules of the courtroom next time
Y’all expect women to kowtow to the men in here, we’re allowed to push back.
So many assumptions about the women in these stories and none of ya even read the damn article.
Women are allowed to share our abuse stories. Deal with it.
Why would my response have anything to do with the gender of the person I'm replying to? How do you expect me to even know that information? How do you know I'm not a woman? (I'm not, just pointing out that immediately making this a men vs women thing is bad.)
It’s clear from our comments that OP and myself are women.
You can pretend that lemmy isn’t overwhelmingly male dominated at this time, but I won’t.
I didn’t make this a men vs women thing, it had already become that days ago.
Lemmy is absolutely male dominated, I just don't like perpetuating the gender war discourse. There are some reasonable takes in here and I would prefer not to have it be drowned out by the "women weak" and "men evil" takes I've seen being tossed around.
Then maybe you should be calling out your fellow men rather than pushing back against the few women in here.
I've done both. I just have longer comment chains arguing with the women because misogynistic comments have the depth of a puddle and there's not much more to say to them than "you suck and I hate your entire worldview".
I also again disagree with the framing that allegiance here should be gender-based.
In this particular thread it’s clear that the men here don’t want to hear why women feel like the alpine divorce issue is a big deal.
There are multiple comments wondering why this is even a topic of conversation.
Women should be allowed to share our stories and not be questioned to death about the ways we could have made those abusive men not abusive.
Yeah I agree that's very prevalent in the thread
And those comments are heavily upvoted. The community here has made it clear how they feel about women in abusive situations.
The intent of those comments varies wildly from "women should man up" to "why are we assuming women aren't the more capable hikers" to "why are men even abandoning someone they supposedly want to hike with" etc. I think some have gotten more upvotes than they deserve but not all of them are just saying we shouldn't be concerned about women being abandoned in the wild by their partners, and those that do say that usually have appropriate replies. What you described is certainly an issue but I don't think it shows an overwhelmingly mysogynistic sentiment from the lemmy userbase at large.
Again, I'm not basing my opinion on the men on this site on this thread alone. It's clear there's a misogyny problem here that is not dissimilar to early days of Reddit or 4chan.
This particular thread, the overwhelming opinion is that these women have chosen the wrong men and did not communicate. The entire responsibility of being abandoned by their partners is placed on the women in these stories. And the women who have pushed back, have pointed out that this is a real thing that happens, that women have to be wary of men in situations like this, are downvoted and ridiculed.