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Rescue workers from the mountain rescue service in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden are looking for the missing hiker on Saturday on the Hochkalter
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Ramsau mountain rescue service / dpa
A 24-year-old mountain hiker had an accident on the Hochkalter in the Berchtesgaden Alps.
Mountain rescuers have been looking for him for two days.
Due to the bad weather, the search for the injured man from Lower Saxony could not be continued on Monday morning, as the Bavarian Red Cross announced.
As soon as the weather permits, they want to try again with a helicopter and a tracking system to locate the cell phone of the casualty.
The man set off on a high alpine tour on Saturday when it snowed in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden.
After a fall at around 2500 meters above sea level, he was able to alert the emergency services himself.
Four mountain rescuers were flown to the Ofental in a rescue helicopter, and other rescue workers were driven there in cars because of the deteriorating weather.
The emergency services called the 24-year-old several times on Saturday.
According to the information, he did not know where exactly he is and was freezing in the snowstorm.
By then half a meter of snow had already fallen.
During a final phone call late Saturday night, the victim said he was unable to climb the ridge, which would probably give rescuers a better chance of finding him.
33 mountain rescuers as well as a thermal imaging drone and three helicopters were in action on Saturday.
The search was also unsuccessful on Sunday, made more difficult by the weather.
wit/dpa
