This could very well be part one in a new video series called How Not To Climb A Mountain, but it is, in fact, a real video showing an actual tourist acting very stupidly indeed in a potentially fatal situation. And it proves you don’t need to be visiting a US National Park to be a "touron", the not-so-affectionate nickname for tourists of very little brain trying their best to earn a Darwin Award.
The video, posted to Facebook by German mountain guide Christian Hessing and which has gone quickly viral, shows an unidentified tourist climbing up the via ferrata to the Zugspitze’s 9,717 feet peak wearing Birkenstock sandals. And commenters have been outraged by the guy’s stupidity.
