Thomas Plamberger, 36, is accused of abandoning 33-year-old girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner in freezing subzero temperatures while climbin, Grossglockner, Austria's tallest mountain

A woman who was tragically left to freeze to death near the summit of a mountain by her boyfriend has been pictured for the first time.

Thomas Plamberger, 36, is accused of abandoning 33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner while climbing Austria 's tallest peak, Grossglockner, in January. She froze to death just 150ft below the summit in -20C temperatures after being left "unprotected, exhausted and hypothermic", prosecutors say.

Plamberger, an experienced mountaineer, faces up to three years behind bars after being charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, with accusations that he was not prepared with emergency

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