A court in Austria is now pouring through phones, sports watches, photos, videos to discover how an expert climber left his girlfriend to die in hellish conditions last January The gruelling Grossglockner peak saw tragedy last year after a climber allegedly left his girlfriend to freeze to death yards from the summit (Image: Getty Images)

A skilled climber is accused of abandoning his girlfriend to freeze to death, leaving her near the peak of one of Austria's tallest mountains at night in arctic conditions.

The man, 36, is charged with manslaughter over the tragic death of his girlfriend, who he left “unprotected, exhausted and hypothermic” near the peak of the harsh 12,460ft Grossglockner mountain.

The 33-year-old woman, who was new to high-altitude climbing, died only 150ft

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