Camera Captures Couple Having Sex Atop 6,500 Feet Mountain

A mountain camera captured a couple having sex 6,500ft up an Austrian mountain.

The webcam, which takes shots every 20 minutes at the Nock Mountain National Park in the Gurktal Alps in Austria, managed to capture the couple having sex and posted it online after software failed to notice the pair and switch off the lens.

The two initially sat next to each other and enjoyed the scenery before the camera caught them lying naked and tightly entangled on the grass at around 12.20 pm. The unknown love birds disappeared from the webcam's sight only 20 minutes later at 12.40 pm but went viral several days later.

The release of the images has sparked concern among Austrian authorities, given that recordings of public places within the country are tightly regulated and in most cases prohibited with severe fines for any breaches.

Ronald Schellander, from Web Media Solutions, explained that panorama and weather cameras are not considered surveillance cameras since they do not continuously transmit recordings.

However, he says that these types of monitoring systems usually take high-resolution photos several times per day and expressed his concern at the uncomfortable situation in which the intimate images were made public.

“Basically, we position cameras in such a way that no people can be recognised due to the resolution of the camera or the distance,” Schellander said.

He said that usually, they would use the software to make sure people’s faces are pixelated and that nothing that breaches anyone’s privacy was published.

However, it appears that the software did not manage to flag these images, possibly because the couple’s faces could not be seen.