Because sharp wits won't always give you the edge.
The knife was really dull
An erection and a place to put it.
He wasn't Italian, because he carried work tools, he wasn't Austrian, since he had some brains, he might have been Swiss, since he was outrun by a glacier, but most probably he was a German, because nobody else ever walks in sandals in the mountains.
In his beef case!
The edge of a cliff, you are guaranteed she will push back!
So it would push back.