The family of an Australian student who died after falling from a Norwegian cliff says she was not taking a "selfie" photograph at the time of the accident. 
Kristi Kafcaloudis, 24, was on exchange at the University of Bergen when she fell from the cliff at the popular Trolltunga Rock tourist destination over the weekend.
She had been in Norway for less than a month and was with a hiking group at the time of the tragedy.
Kristi was an arts and science student at Melbourne's Monash University, but grew up in the Sunshine Coast town of Yandina.
In a statement, mother Milli Kafcaloudis said reports her Kristi was posing for a photograph were untrue.
"It was an accident. She was nowhere near the end of the rock - and not taking a selfie," she said.
"Apparently there were a lot of people on the rock that weekend, and Kristi was waiting about two metres out on the rock to come back to rejoin her two friends who were walking ahead.
"Because other people were posing for a photo being taken, she waited to get past and walked on a little side track to get around them... but the rocks were loose and she lost her balance and fell.
"According to the police officer I spoke to, who had been on the search that evening, screams were heard when she fell but they were not from Kristi, but from her friend who turned around to find her missing."
Milli said it could take up to 10 days for her daughter's body to be returned to Australia.
"We are overwhelmed with the love and support shown to us and to Kristi, who it seems, touched everyone's heart wherever she went," she said.
On Tuesday, friend Freddie Wright said Kristi had a wonderful sense of humour and was "one of the funniest people" he'd met.
"She's just really kind and really funny and she could just light up a room with how funny she was."
"It doesn't really feel real to me," he said of her death.
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman said it was providing consular assistance to the Kafcaloudis family.
- with Marissa Calligeros and Chloe Booker