A first picture has been shared of the girlfriend who tragically died near the summit of Austria's highest peak after her partner allegedly abandoned her to freeze to death Haunting images of Kerstin Gurtner show the 'winter child' enjoying the pastimes that led to her tragic death (Image: jung.gemeinsam-trauern.net)

Heart-breaking images of a mountaineer who froze to death on a daring night-time ascent of an Alpine peak last January have now been shared .

Kerstin Gurtner, 33, died just 150ft from the summit of the 12,460ft Grossglockner, Austria's tallest mountain, as temperatures plunged to -20C. But her death is now the subject of a homicide investigation, as her older boyfriend is blamed for leaving her "exhausted, hypothermic and disoriented" in the cold and dark.

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