“Not mountaineers, just bullies’: South Tyroleans can hardly believe the behavior of Alpine tourists. “Not real mountain lovers, but a few louts who only go to the mountains to get a few likes on social networks,” said the mountaineer.

‘Merano doesn’t need a vigilante group, it just needs more piefke,’ said a German ultrasvernvernacular. In the Austrian and South Tyrol ultrasvernacular, Germans are sometimes derogatorily referred to as “Piefke”