A German hiker fell to her death unsecured in Tyrol.
Apparently she and her companion had avoided a via ferrata - because there was snow on the official route.
A German hiker died on a mountain excursion on Allerheiligen in Tyrol.
The woman was on a via ferrata and fell 60 meters.
Tragic: Apparently, she and her companion had not chosen the official route because there was snow.
Reutte / Nesselwängle
- A
German hiker
paid for
an
All Saints' day trip
to the mountains in wintry conditions
with her death
on Sunday in
Tyrol
.
The woman fell
60 meters
from a
via ferrata
- she was apparently
unsecured
.
Tyrol: Germans fall 60 meters from a via ferrata - fatal accident due to incorrect assessment?
The
accident
occurred, according to a report by the
ORF
on Sunday afternoon (November 1).
According to the information, the 52-year-old German was with a friend on a via ferrata on the
Köllenspitze
in the
Tannheimer Tal
near Nesselwängle.
The alpine area is only a few kilometers behind the German border near
Bad Hindelang in the Reutte district
.
Perhaps a momentous miscalculation was her undoing: The hikers had chosen the risky route because there was
snow
on the official path
, it was said.
The exact
cause of
the
fatal accident
initially remained unclear.
Mountain accident at Köllenspitze ends fatally: hikers take the via ferrata unsecured
The two had previously
reached the Köllenspitze
over a
ridge
.
According to the report, the woman was killed instantly. Her boyfriend was
flown into the valley in
a
rescue helicopter
.
The wanderer's body was brought down by a police helicopter.
Fatal mountain accidents are not uncommon in the Alps.
In September, a German hiker had a fatal accident in front of his wife and daughter in Austria.
A miracle rescue in Switzerland also caused a stir in the summer: a tourist in shorts fell into a crevasse - and was rescued after 48 hours.
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