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A woman who was tragically "left to freeze to death" near the summit of Austria's biggest mountain has been pictured for the first time. ‌

Thomas Plamberger, 36, is accused of abandoning 33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner while climbing Grossglockner , in January. Kerstin froze to death just 150ft below the summit in -20C temperatures after being left "unprotected, exhausted and hypothermic", prosecutors say. ‌

Plamberger, an experienced mountaineer, faces up to three years behind bars after being charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, with accusations that he was not prepared with emergency kit and waited hours to contact rescue teams. ‌

Webcam images show lights from the two climbers ' head torches being picked up on the ground as the made their

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