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Rescue workers near the Spripsenjoch in the Tyrolean Kaiser Mountains
Photo: Zoom.Tirol / dpa
A climber from Germany was buried in a rock fall in the Tyrolean Kaiser Mountains.
Chunks five cubic meters in size fell on the Stripsenjoch on Thursday, said a spokesman for the operations control center of the dpa news agency.
Because of fog, wetness and the danger of loose rock, the Austrian mountain rescuers had to stop their search for the missing person near the border with Bavaria for the time being.
Four other German alpinists with whom the buried person was traveling remained unharmed.
The nationality of the group was announced by the Tyrolean police in the evening.
