A haunting final photograph has emerged of Russian mountaineer Natalia Nagovitsina, who was left stranded on a remote 24,406ft peak after breaking her leg - and is now feared dead.
The image shows the 47-year-old mother-of-one bravely smiling for the camera, her shattered leg stabilised with a spare tent pole. At the time, hopes were still high that she could be saved.
Incredibly, Natalia survived for almost a week after the photograph - first published by Izvestia - was taken with Italian climber Luca Sinigaglia.
In that time, she endured freezing winds and temperatures plunging to minus 20C. One week later, she was even spotted waving to a drone.
But despite her extraordinary fight for life, rescuers were unable to get a helicopter capable of reaching her altitude.
