The woman who was allegedly left to freeze to death by her boyfriend near the summit of an Austrian mountain has been identified.
Kerstin Gutner, 33, died less than 150 feet from the summit of Grossglockner mountain on Jan. 19 — both led and left there by her experienced mountaineer beau Thomas Plamberger, the Daily Mail reported.
The Salzburg native described herself as a “winter child” and a “mountain person” in social media profiles, according to the report.
Plamberger, 39, now faces negligent homicide charges for the night-time, winter excursion that saw Gutner, an inexperienced climber, trek through over 12,000 feet in -4 degree Fahrenheit conditions up toward Austria’s highest peak.
“At approximately 2:00 a.m., the defendant left his girlfriend unprotected, exhausted, hypotherm

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