Thomas Plamberger Sentenced Over Kerstin Gurtner's Alpine Death

An Innsbruck court sentenced Thomas Plamberger to a five-month suspended prison term and a €9,600 fine after Kerstin Gurtner died on the Grossglockner.The mountaineer was found guilty of negligent homicide for leaving his exhausted girlfriend 50 meters below the summit without emergency gear to seek help.Judges cited his emotional burden as a mitigating factor after he failed to clearly communicate the emergency to police while his phone was in airplane mode.