Hiker survived a month in hut after watching her partner die in the wilderness

Pavlina Pizova says she could not free her partner after he slipped down an icy bank and became wedged between rocks and branches.

After he died, she stayed with him through the freezing night.

It would take almost a month before Ms Pizova would be rescued from the New Zealand wilderness in an ordeal she described as “harrowing.”