- Austrian police are investigating a 21-year-old German man who left a 17-year-old girl on the Zugspitze mountain in sub-zero temperatures.
- The pair were attempting a sunrise climb from Ehrwald in Austria when heavy snow and temperatures of -12C left the teenager exhausted at 2,500 metres.
- The girl called emergency services herself and was rescued by mountain rescue teams before being treated in hospital for hypothermia.
- Endangering another person's physical safety carries a potential sentence of up to three months in prison under Austrian law.
- Local mountain rescue officials warned against inexperienced climbers undertaking dangerous winter ascents following the incident.
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