At stake is the question of when personal judgement and risk-taking become a matter of criminal liability. If the climber is found guilty it could mean "a paradigm shift for mountain sports", says Austria's Der Standard newspaper.
And a guilty verdict could also have implications for other mountain climbers, and how much they could be liable for their companions in the future.
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