A desperate last-ditch attempt to rescue a female mountaineer trapped 22,965 feet up a mountain with a broken leg has been abandoned.

Russian mountaineer Natalia Nagovitsina, 47, has been marooned for ten days in severe weather on Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan.

The well-known climber was seen moving on drone footage as recently as three days ago, after she had been missing for a week, according to local reports.

Since then, temperatures have sunk to -23C. A sleeping bag had been delivered to her by Italian climber Luca Sinigaglia, 49, who also brought a tent, food, water and a gas cooker.

But repeated efforts to bring her down failed, both by climbing and using a helicopter.

And tragedy hit when climber Sinigaglia died on the mountain from prolonged exposure to low oxygen and hypothermia

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