Man convicted after girlfriend died as they climbed Austria’s highest mountain

A walker on his way to the cross on the summit of the Grossglockner mountain (Kerstin Joensson/AP)

An Austrian court has convicted a man of manslaughter caused by gross negligence, after his girlfriend froze to death as the couple attempted to climb the country’s highest peak last year.

The 37-year-old defendant was given a five-month suspended sentence and a 9,600-euro (£8,380) fine in a verdict handed down by the Innsbruck state court on Thursday after a one-day trial, the Austria Press Agency reported.