Overview
- t-online publishes a detailed timeline of the July 2025 accident, reporting that Dahlmeier was struck in the head by rockfall while abseiling on Laila Peak and that her management announced her death days later.
- Rescue efforts were thwarted by darkness, bad weather and hazardous terrain, grounding helicopters and leaving a ground approach too slow to offer a realistic chance, according to expert assessments.
- Seilpartnerin Marina Krauss said she could not reach Dahlmeier for hours due to ongoing rockfall, and mountaineer Thomas Huber later defended their measured press-conference tone against criticism from some fans.
- Dahlmeier’s family affirmed that no recovery would be attempted in line with her wishes, with her father saying she rests where she felt free; a memorial service in Garmisch-Partenkirchen followed weeks later.
- Local officials reiterate that the Kurpark’s renaming to “Laura-Dahlmeier-Park” is the sanctioned remembrance and dismiss speculation about a “Dahlmeier-Villa,” as holiday retrospectives revisit her 2023 handstand post and her 2024 Christmas ski with her mother.