A dramatic rescue operation followed a romantic marriage proposal on the summit of the Falkert.
During the descent, the couple fell around 200 meters.
Falkert - An idyllic winter landscape, a wonderful view of the valley - this is the ambience a 27-year-old Austrian chose for his
marriage proposal
.
Together with his 33-year-old girlfriend, he climbed the
Falkert
(2308 meters) in Carinthia
last Sunday
.
When he reached the summit, the young man asked for his companion's hand.
She said “yes” - but then an
alpine drama followed
.
Drama in the Alps: After a marriage proposal, a fall follows
The couple were well prepared for the trip to the mountains.
In
Austria
, where the Corona numbers around New Year's Eve are still high, winter conditions currently prevail.
Therefore, both had set out on the way to the summit of the
Falkert
with snowshoes.
After the
engagement was over
, they began their descent.
This is where the
misfortune
happened
.
As the Austrian
newspaper Kronen Zeitung
reports, the 33-year-old bride-to-be lost her
grip
on the
icy ground
and slipped.
While trying to
hold
his
fiancée
, the man fell and fell into the
depths
.
Crash in the Alps: woman suffers concussion - fiance seriously injured
The woman was
lucky
when she
crashed
.
After both
slid
about
200 meters
over rocks, scree and snow, the newly fiancé came to lie on a snow-covered area above a lake.
The 33-year-old lost her equipment in a fall and impact, but got
away comparatively lightly
with a
concussion
.
According to the information, she was
rescued
by the host of the hut at
Falkertsee
and brought to safety with a ski mobile.
Her partner fared differently.
The 27-year-old fell
15 meters in free fall
before
landing
on a
ledge
.
The pilot of the
rescue helicopter used
told the
Kronen Zeitung
: “The man stopped at the edge.
I could not drop the flight ambulance with him because it seemed as if the injured person would soon run out of strength. ”The
rescuer
had to be lowered to the victim with a rope.
The 27-year-old
future
husband
had to be brought to
the clinic in
Klagenfurt
with
serious injuries
.
Studies have shown that the young Austrian suffered fractures in his thoracic spine when he fell.
In
Bavaria
,
too
, many people
do not want to
miss
out on trips to winter regions
during the
lockdown
.
The region around
Miesbach
is currently overrun by tourists on a daily basis, with the ceiling falling on their heads.
The winter conditions in
Austria are
currently causing queues at the ski lifts despite Corona.
(ph)
