184. Alpine Divorce Horror: Husbands Who Leave Their Wives To Die On Hikes

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Today we’re exploring the term that has been circulating online for the last few months, Alpine Divorce, and two cases where these “divorces” of sorts were life-threatening. In 2012, Toni Henthorn fell from an off-trail ledge in Rocky Mountain National Park. Her husband Harold said she slipped, but a ranger found a map that indicated otherwise. Thirteen years later, Arielle Konig was attacked by her husband, Gerhardt, on a cliffside trail in Hawaii on her birthday, but against all odds, she made it out alive.
TW: Domestic abuse, mention of sexual assault on a minor, description of head injury
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.
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