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Some Other Trends Inspired by Alpine Divorce

Some Other Trends Inspired by Alpine Divorce

Published by Sam Flores

This is a trend? The Alpine Divorce? When a man abandons his girlfriend and his relationship mid-hike? This sounds like a cutesy name for something genuinely alarming! Here are some other trends that might be coming next. Alpine Divorce, Hannibal Edition: When you leave your significant other in the Alps on foot but you yourself ride across them on an elephant. Catiline Divorce: When you end your relationship by constantly denouncing your significant other for conspiring to overthrow the consuls. Madeline Divorce: When you end your relationship by getting an appendectomy suddenly in the middle of the night with the assistance of Miss Clavel. Feline Divorce: When you end your relationship by spitting a hair ball onto your significant other, devouring his favorite fern, and shredding the drapes with your claws. Equine Divorce: When you end your relationship by pretending to sail home for Greece, leaving in your stead an enormous wooden horse. What’s inside? Probably nothing! Vine Divorce: When you end your relationship via a seven-second video loop. Valjean Divorce: When you end your …

‘Alpine divorce’ is the dating red flag that could leave you stranded on a mountain

‘Alpine divorce’ is the dating red flag that could leave you stranded on a mountain

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more On a sweltering summer day in 2011, Maya Silver was hiking through Colorado’s remote Unaweep Canyon when her then-boyfriend started to grow frustrated with her pace. The sun was blazing overhead, the terrain was difficult, and she couldn’t keep up. Without a word, he stormed ahead — and then vanished from sight. Silver, an inexperienced hiker at the time, spent the next two hours alone, lost and spiraling with fears of rattlesnake bites, heatstroke, and the suffocating isolation of the canyon. “After one hour, you start spiralling in your head,” she says. “I worried that I might never get off the trail and find him, that he had left me completely, or I would take a wrong turn and trip and fall.” Silver experienced …

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’? | Relationships

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’? | Relationships

Published by Sam Flores

MJ calls what happened to her in Zion national park “small ‘T’ trauma”. She knows women have experienced worse from their partners. But she still feels the anger of being left behind on a hike by her now ex. “It brings up stuff in my body that maybe I have not cleared out yet,” she said. Five years ago, MJ and a new partner – he was not exactly her boyfriend, and the pair were not exclusive – traveled from Los Angeles to Utah for an adventure getaway. MJ, who is 38 and works in PR, was looking forward to exploring Zion’s striking scenery; its vast sandstone canyon and pristine wading trails were on the list. But on the morning of their big hike, MJ was not feeling well. She could not shake the feeling that something was “off”; indeed, MJ would learn on this trip that her partner was seeing other women. As they made their way up Angel’s Landing, MJ’s partner started walking faster than her. “I could tell it was getting on …

Alpine glacier holds history dating back to the Romans. And it’s melting—fast.

Alpine glacier holds history dating back to the Romans. And it’s melting—fast.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Deep inside the frozen Eastern Alps, the Weißseespitze ice cap (pronounced VICE-zay-shpitt-suh) sits at almost 11,482 feet (3,500 meters) above sea level. Overlooking the mountainous border between Austria and Italy, Weißseespitze is an alpine glacier. It formed as layers of snowfall gradually compacted into dense glacial ice, trapping airborne particles that hold important clues about Earth’s past atmosphere.  The oldest ice contained in Weißseespitze dates back roughly 6,000 years to the mid-Holocene, a warm period following the close of the last global ice age. Scientists say the ice cap is an extraordinary trove of data about pre-industrial human activity and environmental change. But rising global temperatures due to climate change are rapidly melting the glacier’s surface, forcing researchers to move quickly to capture the critical information frozen inside Weißseespitze.  Atmosphere frozen in time From 2019 to 2024, an international team of scientists embarked on a series of research expeditions at the dome-shaped ice cap, drilling down to the bedrock …

What Is An ‘Alpine Divorce’?

What Is An ‘Alpine Divorce’?

Published by Sam Flores

We really wish we didn’t have to talk about “alpine divorces”. Over the past week, the unusual term has been trending on social media, particularly on Threads. The conversation stems from a TikTok video posted last month by a woman who said she was left alone on a hike after a man who invited her along abandoned her. We reached out to the woman to verify the claims in the video, which has over 21.8 million views, but did not receive a response before publication. But in a new follow-up video, she said it all went down during a recent hike with a date in the North McCullough Wilderness area of southern Nevada. According to her, her date rushed ahead to beat other hikers to the summit and left her behind to catch up on the trail. “He said he wanted to run and I remembered thinking, ‘Why are we chasing strangers to the top of the mountain?’” she said in the clip. (Good point!) In the comments on the original video, women broadened the …

What Is This ‘Alpine Divorce’ Term Seen on TikTok?

What Is This ‘Alpine Divorce’ Term Seen on TikTok?

Published by Jenni Sidey

An “alpine divorce” may sound like the ending of some kind of richy-rich marriage on the ski slopes. But people on TikTok have been using this term to describe what was posted by @EverAfterIya on February 18. This post has already garnered more than 19 million views and featured a woman walking on a rocky outdoor trail, weeping, and calling it “The worst Saturday of my life.” Text overlaying this video also stated, “POV: you go on a hike with him in the mountains but he leaves you alone by yourself and you realize he never liked you to begin with.” What Is an ‘Alpine Divorce’? Yeah, abandoning someone on a hike is usually not a sign of like. The trail to this “alpine divorce” term seemed to originate from a short story with the same name, “An Alpine Divorce,” written by Robert Barr in 1893. You could say that this really set the Barr on a mountain of grisliness as the tale featured a man planning to murder his wife while they traveled through …

Alpine skiing-Odermatt wins first downhill since Olympics in Swiss sweep

Alpine skiing-Odermatt wins first downhill since Olympics in Swiss sweep

Published by Sam Flores

Feb 28 : Marco Odermatt won the first men’s World Cup Alpine skiing downhill after the Milano Cortina Olympics in a Swiss one-two-three in the German resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday. Odermatt failed in his bid for gold at this month’s Games in Italy, taking two silvers and a bronze, but was immediately back on top of a podium that surprisingly did not feature compatriot and triple gold medallist Franjo von Allmen. Alexis Monney was second, 0.04 slower, and Stefan Rogentin third in warm conditions on the Kandahar piste, with Von Allmen down in sixth place behind Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr and Italian Giovanni Franzoni. “I was really relaxed and happy to ski today,” said Odermatt, now winner of four of seven downhills this season. “Skiing was much fun again. I like these conditions when the atmosphere is a little bit more relaxed. “It’s a tough downhill, difficult with the snow, also with the warm temperature. To get the race tension is not easy for me today.”  Odermatt increased his advantage in the downhill standings to …

Alpine Divorce: Behind the sinister dating term made popular by a chilling TikTok

Alpine Divorce: Behind the sinister dating term made popular by a chilling TikTok

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Ditching a significant other during a hike, also referred to as “Alpine Divorce,” is the latest eyebrow-raising dating trend — with people pointing out the chilling dangers of that move. The phrase was mentioned in the comments of a TikTok video posted last week, where a woman with the username @EverAfterIya documented herself walking on an outdoor terrain, near rocky mountains. She could also be heard sobbing in the background, where she said she was having the “worst Saturday of [her] life.” “POV: You go on a hike with him in the mountains, but he leaves you alone by yourself and you realize he never liked you to begin with,” the text over the video, which has 19 million views, reads. In the caption, …

Alpine skiing-Suter wins Soldeu downhill, Aicher closes gap to absent Vonn

Alpine skiing-Suter wins Soldeu downhill, Aicher closes gap to absent Vonn

Published by Sam Flores

Feb 27 : Switzerland’s Corinne Suter won the first women’s downhill after the Milano Cortina Olympics on Friday with Germany’s Emma Aicher fourth in Andorra to slash Lindsey Vonn’s World Cup lead to 94 points with three races remaining. Vonn’s season is over after the U.S. Alpine ski great crashed in the Olympic downhill, shattering her left leg and undergoing multiple rounds of surgery to save it. The 41-year-old has said it will take around a year for all the bones to heal. Suter’s victory in Soldeu was the 31-year-old’s first podium of the season, sixth career win and the first time the 2021 downhill world champion and 2022 Olympic champion had stood on the top step since a super-G in December 2022. The Swiss, who was only 14th at the Milano Cortina Games this month after being sidelined by injury in December, started fourth and beat Austrian Nina Ortlieb by 0.11 seconds, with Italian Sofia Goggia third. World and Olympic champion Breezy Johnson of the United States was fifth. Italy’s double 2026 Olympic gold …

Alpine skiing-Brignone says golden double surely ends era of sacrifices

Alpine skiing-Brignone says golden double surely ends era of sacrifices

Published by Sam Flores

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY, Feb 16 : A day after winning Olympic giant slalom gold at the Milano Cortina Games to add to her super-G title on home snow, Federica Brignone said she would no longer make the sacrifices that had carried her through a 10-month return from injury, surgery and rehabilitation that left her fighting simply to get back to competition, let alone Olympic fitness. “Surely I’m not willing anymore to, I mean, I’ve never taken many, but to take drugs to (be able to) ski…,” the 35-year-old said at a press conference on Monday. After a crash last April that left her with displaced fractures in her left leg and a torn anterior cruciate ligament, Brignone had to make a near total commitment across almost a year shaped by pain management, recovery work and the daily grind of rebuilding strength. “I worked around the clock to be able to be on the track and be competitive, so I want to work yes like the other years, but not in such an exhausting way,” Brignone said. The …