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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 …

How to create the perfect alpine container

How to create the perfect alpine container

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 If you’re bored with pansies and primroses for spring containers, there’s an easy alternative if you go for alpine candidates. Alpines – from succulent sempervivums to pretty saxifrages – come into their own in spring and early summer, clothing pots in interesting flowers and foliage and best of all, most are cold hardy, coming from cool, mountainous regions. The peak time for alpines is after the first spring bulbs start coming up, until mid-May. But where do you start? Create a good match Whether you are using an alpine rock, a terracotta pan or an old Belfast sink, create a cohesive look, matching the rock or container with the top dressing, to give it more of a natural landscape, suggests Lauren Fear, alpine horticulturist …

Alpine skiing-Women’s GS sparks ‘junior slope’ jibe but Shiffrin praises piste’s safety

Alpine skiing-Women’s GS sparks ‘junior slope’ jibe but Shiffrin praises piste’s safety

Published by Sam Flores

(Adds dropped word in headline) By Julien Pretot CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY, Feb 15 : The two leading giant slalom racers of the season delivered a blunt verdict on the Olympic course on Sunday, with Switzerland’s Camille Rast saying the hill felt “like a junior race slope” after a race that left her and Austria’s Julia Scheib just outside the podium places. Rast, who finished 12th and 0.37 seconds off the medals, said the layout — flat after a strong top section and unforgiving to mistakes — was not like a traditional giant slalom. “I would love to race on the real slalom slope from the World Champs, because that’s a real slalom slope. This is like a junior race slope. But that’s life. We are at the Olympics and we take what we have to do,” said Rast, second in the giant slalom World Cup standings. American Mikaela Shiffrin, who placed 11th, instead praised the piste’s safety and spectacle. “I don’t think anybody would say there was danger on this hill today. It was actually …

U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin finishes another Olympic race without a medal : NPR

U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin finishes another Olympic race without a medal : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course, during an alpine ski, women’s giant slalom race, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. Marco Trovati/AP hide caption toggle caption Marco Trovati/AP CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — U.S. Alpine skiing legend Mikaela Shiffrin is running out of chances to medal in the 2026 Winter Games, after falling short again in giant slalom under stunning blue skies in the mountains above Cortina. Shiffrin has won more World Cup races than any other skier in history and she has been the overall leader in this winter’s World Cup standings ahead of competition here. But the Olympics have long stymied Shiffrin, since her stunning disappointment in 2022, when she left the Beijing Games empty-handed despite entering all six Alpine events. The giant slalom, in particular, has been a challenge for Shiffrin. She won gold in the event in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea. But she has struggled since a crash in 2024 during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vt., in which …

Alpine ski great Vonn says she needs multiple surgeries for complex leg fracture but has no regrets

Alpine ski great Vonn says she needs multiple surgeries for complex leg fracture but has no regrets

Published by Sam Flores

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 9 : Ski great Lindsey Vonn said she suffered a complex leg fracture in Sunday’s downhill race at the Milano Cortina Olympics that will require multiple surgical operations. The 41-year-old added in an Instagram post that she had no regrets and that her anterior cruciate ligament rupture and other past injuries were not linked to the fall in her bid to win the gold, which went to her U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson. Vonn, the second most successful female World Cup skier of all time with 84 wins, has had two operations in Italy, a source said, to stabilise her after an horrific crash 13 seconds into one of the most hotly anticipated races at the Winter Olympics.   “Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tale, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury …