RESCUERS have ditched last hopes to reach a woman mountaineer who has been "left to die" with a broken leg on a snowy 24,000ft peak.

After twelve agonising days and the death of a rescuer, Natalia Nagovitsyna, 47, is still stuck on the Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan .

Multiple rescue efforts have failed to bring back the female mountaineer who broke her leg while scaling the summit on August 12.

Pal and fellow climber Luca Sinigaglia, 49, tragically died on his second attempt to save her.

Authorities called off the search on Friday due to the impossible weather conditions.

But they planned on resuming one last search effort today to find the Russian climber after facing criticism for "leaving her to die".

Rescuers hoped to get a window in the bad weather to enable a n

See Full Page