An experienced mountaineer has been charged with leaving his struggling girlfriend to freeze to death on Austria’s highest peak, with their fatal trek caught on a webcam.

The 33-year-old woman was found dead roughly 160 feet from the summit of Grossglockner mountain back in January after she and her 36-year-old boyfriend had set off on the hike, local outlet Huete reported .

The couple, who haven’t been identified publicly, were nearing the peak on Jan. 19 at about 2 a.m. when the girlfriend apparently started struggling and couldn’t go any further.

Footage captured by a webcam showed the couple nearing the peak of the Grossglockner mountain in Austria back in January. foto-webcam.eu

Webcam images captured the couple’s headlights clearly visible on the side of the mountain during th

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