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“Something with legs” falls over a steep slope: rescuers look for mountaineers - but find something else

2020-06-01T05:35:36.473Z


A woman saw legs fall at the instep horn and called 911. The rescuers looked for a fallen mountaineer - but found something else.


A woman saw legs fall at the instep horn and called 911. The rescuers looked for a fallen mountaineer - but found something else.

  • A woman watched a rock fall at the Ristfeuchthorn and alarmed the emergency call.
  • She had seen legs fall, so the rescuers were looking for a climber.
  • However, the rescuers searched in vain for a fallen mountaineer - and made another discovery instead.

Schneizelreuth - The mountain rescue services Bad Reichenhall and Teisendorf-Anger disengaged on Saturday morning (May 30) due to a mountain climber who allegedly fell from a rock fall . The crew of the Traunstein rescue helicopter  "Christoph 14" was also deployed on the east side of the Ristfeuchthorn. The district association Berchtesgadener Land of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK)

Schneizlreuth: woman observes falling rocks and alarms the mountain rescue service

Around 9:15 a.m., a woman had observed in the lower part of the climb how a boulder and "something with legs" had crashed down the steep slope directly in front of her. She therefore made an emergency call to the Traunstein control center.

Thereupon the crew of the rescue helicopter  "Christoph 14" flew off the climb, the rock faces and the mountain forest on the east side, "but could not find the rockfall or the supposedly fallen mountaineer from the air", as the BRK further announced.

Berchtesgadener Land: Rescuers look for fallen mountaineers - and find dead chamois

Mountain rescue workers therefore climbed on foot from the Schneizlreuth inn via the normal path and found a dead chamois chamois , only around two weeks old , which had obviously crashed due to or with the falling rocks . “They informed the responsible hunter and then continued the search. 14 women and men from the mountain rescue service were on duty for around an hour, ”the BRK said in conclusion.

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A couple from Munich had to be freed from a predicament on Sunday at Königssee. After all, the two behaved exemplary in one respect.

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