Mountain accident in the Berchtesgaden Alps: A 29-year-old vacationer fell 100 meters.
Despite the onset of winter, his group was hiking - in shorts and street shoes.
Despite the early onset of winter, a group of holidaymakers went to the mountains.
A 29-year-old Brit fell about 100 meters through a gully.
The rescuers initially had problems finding the exact location of the accident.
Berchtesgaden - Five
rescue workers from the
Berchtesgaden mountain
rescue service and the crew of the Traunstein rescue helicopter
"Christoph 14"
rescued
a 29-year-old Englishman from the
north side
of
Kehlstein
on Monday
.
He had previously crashed about 100 meters through a rocky gully and had seriously injured his thigh, head and feet.
This is reported by the
Bavarian Red Cross
(BRK) district association Berchtesgadener Land.
British holidaymaker crashes: mountain rescue service discovered group with binoculars
Against 16:25 went
emergency
one.
The control center and head of operations tried to find out exactly where the group was.
For some time it was suspected that the accident
must have occurred
on
Mannlgrat
.
A helicopter flight was initially not possible because of the thick fog.
The BRK further writes: “
During
the phone call,
the
head of operations
succeeded in finding out where the holidaymakers were by asking specific questions, since the location of the cell phone and the query of coordinates had not previously worked.
The caller could then send a photo on which, with a good knowledge of the area, the view towards Roßfeldstraße could be seen and a piece of the forest road could be recognized. "
Shortly after 5 p.m.,
mountain rescuers
were able to see
the group with binoculars in the area of a climb on the north side of the Kehlstein at an altitude of around 1400 to 1500 meters.
They sent three rescuers with equipment on foot from Ofner Boden, including an
ambulance
.
Meanwhile, the crew of "Christoph 14" tried to get through from Traunstein to the Kehlstein despite bad weather.
“The pilot was then able to fly to the fog-free site and let an ambulance and a Berchtesgaden mountain rescuer disembark in a hover over the runner on the slope;
in the meantime the foot crew had arrived and the five rescuers took care of the seriously injured 29-year-old, ”as it goes on.
29-year-old Brit crashed near Berchtesgaden - mountain rescue service has to abseil vacationers
Around 20 minutes later, the
pilot
and the doctor
picked up
the patient on the short rope.
The 29-year-old came to the
hospital
in Traunstein.
The mountain rescuers brought the first aider who had dismounted to the injured and the two other members of the group who had gone further up the path, where they had to abseil the vacationers.
Nothing happened to the three men, but because of their light clothing they were freezing in the rain.
Despite bad weather and the onset of winter: British people in shorts and street shoes
“Despite the bad weather and the early
winter onset, the
four Brits, around 30 years old, set off
on foot in shorts and with light street shoes on the
Kehlstein
from their camping bus in Hintereck
, but then because of the snow and the slippery surface bigger problems to move forward and to orientate oneself, whereby the 29-year-old even fell, "it says in conclusion.
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When the rocks began to move, the Austrians tried to warn the Germans with loud shouts.
A mountaineer from Bavaria could not get to safety in time.
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