An Austrian man was found guilty on Thursday of gross negligent manslaughter after he left his girlfriend behind on a mountain hike and she froze to death, in a case that prompted an international deb...

An Austrian court on Thursday found a 37-year-old amateur mountaineer guilty of manslaughter over his girlfriend's death of cold near Austria's highest summit after he left her to fetch help, Austrian...

Prosecutors say Plamberger left Gurtner ‘unprotected, exhausted, hypothermic and disoriented’ and that, as an experienced climber, he was the ‘responsible guide of the tour’.