A woman who froze to death after allegedly being abandoned by her boyfriend on Austria’s tallest mountain has been pictured for the first time.

Kerstin Gurtner, 33, died in the pitch-black on 12,640ft Grossglockner on a night when temperatures plunged to -20C in January last year.

Thomas Plamberger, her 39-year-old boyfriend, now faces a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Prosecutors say Plamberger left Gurtner ‘unprotected, exhausted, hypothermic and disoriented’ and that, as an experienced climber, he was the ‘responsible guide of the tour’.

Plamberger has denied the allegations, saying through his lawyer that he left her to get help in what was a ‘tragic, fateful incident’.

Hundreds of tributes have poured in for Gurtner since her death, with people remembering the ‘wonder

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