Today marks the 40th anniversary of a terrible avalanche accident that left three people dead. Eight comrades went on a ski tour with a companion to the 2,490 meter high Hochgleiersch in the Tyrolean Karwendel.
They were swept to their deaths by an avalanche. Alarmed mountain guards from Tyrol and the Oberland spent a long time searching for the buried victims. To this day there is a memorial event every year for the three men who died.