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German dies while hiking in the mountains in Tyrol

2021-06-07T06:03:00.881Z


He apparently slipped on a snowfield: A 65-year-old from Bonn died on a solo tour through the Alps near Scharnitz.


The Alps in the area between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck (archive image)

Photo: Peter Kneffel / picture alliance / dpa

A man from Bonn died on a solo hike in the Austrian Alps.

According to the first findings of the Tyrolean police, the 65-year-old is likely to have crashed around 400 meters in altitude over snow-covered and rocky terrain.

He was discovered by a police helicopter in the Scharnitz area near the Bavarian border on Saturday.

According to a police spokesman in Innsbruck, the hiker arrived in Scharnitz on Tuesday.

When he did not return to Bonn as expected on Thursday, he was reported missing.

German and Austrian emergency services were looking for him in the Karwendelspitze area.

On Saturday he was found lifeless below a pier and recovered by helicopter.

Investigators assume that he slipped on a snowfield.

wbr / dpa

Source: spiegel

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