A man is accused of leaving his girlfriend to freeze to death near the summit of the highest mountain in Austria at the beginning of this year.

The woman, 33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner of Salzburg, Austria, died Jan. 19 at the summit of Grossglockner. She was guided and later left there by her boyfriend, Thomas Plamberger, an experienced mountain climber, the Daily Mail reported .

Plamberger, 39, faces negligent homicide charges. He is accused of leading his inexperienced girlfriend to climb more than three kilometres up Grossglockner in -20C temperatures.

In a statement from the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office, Plamberger “left his girlfriend unprotected, exhausted, hypothermic, and disoriented about 50 metres below the summit cross of the Grossglockner” at 2 a.m.

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