I even spent a week hiking with him on Corsica. In between high-school exams and university, I was the only one who had time. We had planned to do the whole GR20-hiking-trail, but had to cut it short in the end because he got a place at university to study medicine and needed to go back to Munich for enrolment.
A year later, however, he switched to Lufthansa after all, to train as a pilot.Later he had an accident hiking in the mountains. He was secured to a rope, but apparently fell so awkwardly that he was killed.
His wife was pregnant at that time without knowing it yet.

But during this week on Corsica we hardly talked at all, so that I