Por Sophie Tanno, CNN

La etiqueta “divorcio alpino” ha ganado gran difusión en redes sociales como TikTok e Instagram en los últimos meses, con muchas mujeres compartiendo experiencias traumáticas, en ocasiones potencialmente mortales.

El término se usa para describir una situación durante una caminata u otra actividad al aire libre, en la que una persona, generalmente un hombre, abandona a su pareja, por lo general menos experimentada y más vulnerable, en un entorno remoto y potencialmente peligroso.

La conversación ha estado impulsada en parte por un caso de alto perfil en Austria a comienzos de este año, en el que un escalador fue declarado culpable de homicidio involuntario y recibió una condena en suspenso tras dejar sola a su novia en el Grossglockner, la montaña más alta del país, alegando que iba a buscar ayuda. Ella murió por congelación.

Los fiscales acusaron al hombre, identificado como Thomas P., de no responder llamadas de los servicios de rescate pese a tener señal telefónica y de no enviar alertas de auxilio a tiempo. Durante el juicio, una exnovia declaró que él la había abandonado en la misma montaña, en 2023, porque la consideraba demasiado lenta, según informó el diario alemán Bild. Según su testimonio ante el tribunal, él tendía a mostrarse “irritable” si ella tenía dificultades durante una caminata.

En medio del juicio, mujeres comenzaron a compartir sus experiencias personales en línea. “POV: sales a una caminata con él en la montaña, pero te deja sola y te das cuenta de que en realidad nunca le gustaste”, escribió una mujer en un video en TikTok que la muestra sola en un sendero aislado y que ha acumulado casi 5 millones de visualizaciones.

En una publicación en X, otra mujer compartió un video caminando sola en la naturaleza y escribió: “Este es un video de mí caminando por las Tierras Altas de Escocia tratando de aprovechar mi viaje mientras el hombre con el que tenía una relación informal estaba kilómetros por delante de mí”. El video tiene 1,9 millones de visualizaciones.

Acuñado en un cuento de 1893 del escritor escocés-canadiense Robert Barr, en el que un esposo planea matar a su esposa en los Alpes suizos, el término “divorcio alpino” no es un concepto legal ni oficial. Sin embargo, la psicóloga conductual y coach de relaciones Jo Hemmings dijo a CNN que las dinámicas de relación que describe son identificables.

Según Hemmings, quienes incurren en este comportamiento suelen tener un estilo de apego evitativo, que los lleva a distanciarse emocional y físicamente de los demás bajo estrés en lugar de afrontar la causa.

“Es probable que carezcan de empatía y compasión y que eviten el conflicto, prefiriendo apartarse”, dijo. “Veo este tipo de comportamiento con frecuencia en mis consultas: una pareja, por lo general un hombre con una mujer, que se retrae ante el cuestionamiento, o incluso puede abandonar la sala o renunciar por completo al proceso terapéutico”.

Aunque el “divorcio alpino” no sea una experiencia común, Hemmings considera que el concepto subyacente resultará familiar para muchas mujeres. “No por el entorno de montaña, sino porque el distanciamiento emocional o incluso el abandono dentro de una relación es relativamente frecuente”.

El entorno montañoso añade otra dimensión a este patrón de comportamiento, haciéndolo potencialmente peligroso. Este tipo de actividades al aire libre crea una jerarquía inmediata: quién lidera, quién orienta y quién marca el ritmo.

“Caminar por delante y negarse a adaptarse puede ser una forma sutil de ejercer autoridad o control”, dijo Hemmings.

Aunque el término suele referirse a parejas sentimentales, también puede aplicarse a casos en los que mujeres son abandonadas por otras figuras masculinas en las que confiaban, como padres, hermanos, familiares o amigos.

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By Auzinea Bacon, CNN

(CNN) — Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina who sits on the banking committee that approves Federal Reserve nominees, said Sunday he will support Kevin Warsh’s appointment as the next Fed chair.

“I am prepared to move on with the confirmation of Mr. Warsh. I think he’s going to be a great Fed Chair,” Tillis said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Tillis had previously blocked a vote to move forward with Warsh’s nomination due to the Justice Department’s probe of Chair Jerome Powell, whose term ends on May 15. The probe was dropped on Friday.

Tillis said in a statement Sunday that the DOJ’s investigation “was a serious threat” to the central bank’s independence.

“If we had allowed this (investigation) to occur, I think it would have had devastating consequences for our financial systems and the markets worldwide,” Tillis said.

The investigation was launched after months of Trump’s complaints about lower interest rates and accusations of impropriety and incompetence in Powell’s leadership of the central bank’s multibillion-dollar renovation project at its Washington, DC, headquarters.

“I feel like there were prosecutors in DC that thought this was going to be a lever to have Mr. Powell leave early,” Tillis said Sunday, adding that he has been assured an appeal would not be used to reopen an investigation.

President Donald Trump has railed against Powell for not lowering interest rates faster and has signaled that he wanted to fire the chair. Trump said he expects the new Fed chair to lower interest rates, and joked that he would sue Warsh if he didn’t cut rates if confirmed to the role.

Tillis agreed with Trump’s demands to lower inflation, saying Sunday that “we’ve got to deal with the affordability problem.”

“But you’ve got to do it by the rules,” he said, adding that he believes Warsh will act independently and Trump may be annoyed “once or twice.”

On Tuesday, Warsh was pressed by lawmakers about monetary policy and whether the central bank will operate independently from the White House. If the Trump administration were to chip away at the Fed’s independence, it could pave the way for political interference in setting interest rates for the world’s largest economy.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the leading Democrat on the banking committee, asked Warsh to “name one aspect of President Trump’s economic agenda with which you disagree.”

Warsh said his disagreement with Trump was that he “was out of central casting,” to which Warren responded, “quite adorable.”

This story has been updated with additional content.

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By Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN

(CNN) — After years of preparation, college applications and some acceptances, I thought the stress of my senior year of high school was over last spring.

But I was wrong, thanks to the rise of social media accounts centered on finding friends and roommates online, months before the first day of college.

I’d seen kids in the grades ahead of me share posts of themselves on Instagram accounts to connect to future college classmates. Now I was worried that I was supposed to make my college friends before I even stepped foot on campus.

How could I decide who my friends would be from highly curated picture selections and nearly identical bios? In their bios, all the girls loved a good night out and were down for a good night in, and the boys all loved the gym. Everyone was excited for new friends. It seemed like nobody wanted to really be honest and risk sounding weird.

Eventually, I learned these pages are rarely run by the schools themselves. Instead, outside companies and contractors often manage them, many without permission from the schools they cater to. Incoming college freshmen are easy targets for people looking to profit from anxiety about loneliness, which the former US Surgeon General called an epidemic. Only about one-quarter of current college students say that they “feel deeply connected to at least one community,” according to the 2025 Harvard Youth Poll.

These Instagram pages offer a way to reach out before ever arriving on campus, potentially assuaging anticipatory worry and first-day awkwardness.

Incoming freshmen: Make friends online now!

For those of you who went to college before social media, it works like this: As soon as acceptance decisions come out, incoming freshmen can post pictures and bios of themselves on class Instagram pages in hopes of connecting with other incoming freshmen at a particular university. These social media handles read something like “@NameOfCollegeclassof30” or “RandomUniversity_2030.” (The number is the incoming class’s graduating year.)

Incoming freshmen submit a few pictures and a little about themselves, such as hometown, prospective major, hobbies and interests. Often, they must submit proof of admission, such as a picture of their acceptance letter. Sometimes they have to pay a fee to have their information posted.

I followed the Instagram student pages of all the schools where I was accepted and saw hundreds of posts featuring incoming freshmen who might be my future friends or roommates. Every post’s description ended with encouragement to connect: “I’m looking for a roommate and friends, so please reach out!”

When my parents went to college, people didn’t choose their first-year roommates — but many schools allow it now. Incoming freshmen can still opt to have a randomly assigned roommate, but from what I’ve seen among my friends and classmates, most people don’t. If students don’t already have friends at the same school, they are left scrambling to find someone. Some schools have roommate-matching questionnaires, but Instagram seems to be a popular method.

Eventually I decided on Dartmouth College, which requires everyone to have a random freshman year roommate. The purpose of my college’s incoming students page seemed to be strictly to make friends. I checked the page daily but never posted or texted anyone. I couldn’t figure out what to say.

Making friends IRL

On the drive to campus, my mom told me that everyone was going to be in the same boat, scared and looking for friends, no matter how together they seemed. She told me to just keep reaching out in person and to be as friendly and open as possible.

I showed up on move

By Victoria Robinson, as told to Andrea Kane, CNN | Photographs by Brenda Bazán for CNN

(CNN) — One in 31: That’s the estimated number of children identified as having autism spectrum disorder by age 8 in the United Sates, according to the most recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That number has been going up for decades. It was around 1 in 150 in 2000, and it was thought to be fewer than 5 per 10,000 children in the early 1980s.

According to experts, three main reasons account for the lion’s share of the growth over the years: increased awareness, improved screening tools and the expansion of the diagnostic criteria to include a much wider range of people.

There are two main components of autism spectrum disorder, Dr. Matthew Lerner told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently on his podcast “Chasing Life.” Lerner is director of the Social Connections and Treatment Lab at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute.

“Autism spectrum disorder in the current DSM [the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association] has sort of two groups of criteria,” he said. “One is in the social and communication domain: Difficulties with fluid back and forth social interaction, reading and using nonverbal cues, making and maintaining friendships and relationships.

“Another domain has to do with restricted, repetitive behaviors and sensory experiences,” he explained. “So maybe needing to say the same thing over and over again, or needing to line up toys in a very particular way … hand flapping or kind of pacing back and forth, as well as having maybe a lot of reactivity to certain kinds of sensory experiences like loud noises, itchy shirts, things like that.”

People who are on the spectrum have defining symptoms that appear in different ways and to different degrees. Some may be non-speaking while others might speak very fluidly. Some may complete high school, college or even graduate school, while others may never learn the alphabet. Some may get married and have children while others will always require a caretaker.

“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism” is an often-repeated quote attributed to Dr. Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, author and autism advocate.

Through the photos and text below, we’ll introduce you to one autistic person and his family. Mason is 14 and lives in Texas with his mother, Victoria, father Brandon and brothers Everett, 7, and Preston, 3. Victoria shares their story, and her comments have been edited for length and clarity.

A ‘big pivotal moment’

Mason was Victoria’s first child, so everything about parenting was new to her. She describes him as a happy, healthy boy. But in those first years, she noticed a few things.

He was always really serious. And he would line up all his toys. And then sometimes he would be so obsessed with one certain toy, and if it was missing, he (would have) a hard time. There were little things like that.

He always liked to play by himself. That was one of the things that stuck out to me. Kids would come and t