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Kerstin Gurtner froze to death after she was left ‘exhausted, hypothermic, and disoriented’ on Grossglockner mountain

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A seasoned Alpine climber has been charged with manslaughter after he left his girlfriend on Austria’s highest mountain, the Grossglockner, before she froze to death.