A 21-year-old German whose 17-year-old female friend was left alone while descending Germany’s highest mountain in sub-zero temperatures is being investigated by Austrian police.
The pair had set off from the Austrian village of Ehrwald at around 1:30am local time and planned to climb the Zugspitze mountain to see the sunrise. They reached around 2,500 metres before the temperature plummeted to -12C and it began to snow heavily, according to German news agency dpa.
