An emergency call from a ski tourer triggered a large-scale operation by the Steingaden / Peiting mountain rescue service on Saturday.
The rescue operation demanded everything from the emergency services.
Peiting / Steingaden
- It was 10.30 a.m. on Saturday when the
emergency call came in
.
A
ski tourer
had
suffered
an acute
internal emergency
at
Wolfskopf
near
Trauchgau
.
In order to
quickly
rush to
the
unconscious man's
help
, an
emergency doctor's helicopter was called
from Reutte.
Due to the thick cloud cover,
however, he was unable to approach
the
accident site
and had to turn away.
Ski tourers unconscious on Wolfskopf: Rescue helicopter cannot land
On the second approach, the crew finally succeeded in
dropping
a
mountain rescue
air rescuer
.
He fought his way on
skis
through the
fresh snow that
had fallen one meter deep in the night
towards the
Wolfskopf summit.
As the patient's condition continued to deteriorate, the
mountain rescue operations manager
decided
to send
additional personnel to the
accident site
at the
same time
.
With a caterpillar quad and an
all-terrain vehicle
, two teams tried to advance along the forest road on the north side towards the patient.
Unconscious ski tourer: Rescuers from Steingaden have to get on skis
From a height of around
1400 meters
, however, progress was impossible even with the caterpillar quad, and the
rescuers
also had to
climb
on
skis
.
At the same time, the
helicopter
picked up
other air rescuers at the
mountain rescue station
in Steingaden and flew them towards the deployment site.
During the entire rescue operation, special attention had to be paid to the
avalanche
situation, which was
rated
locally as the second highest
danger level 4
.
The ground-based emergency services tried
to carry
an Akja to the
summit
of Wolfskopf in order to be able to transport the patient into the valley.
Ski tourers in critical condition: an emergency doctor who was on the road privately came by by chance
In the meantime, fortunately, a
mountain rescue emergency doctor
who was on a private ski tour had come across the patient and was able to look after him.
On the third approach, the
cloud cover
finally cleared briefly
and the helicopter was able to
abseil
other emergency services directly at the
scene of
the
accident
.
After a 3.5 hour rescue operation on Wolfskopf: ski tourers safely recovered
The patient, who was meanwhile
severely hypothermic
, received
emergency medical
attention and was placed in the vacuum bed.
Thus, on the fifth approach, the emergency doctor and the 48-year-old ski tourer could be picked up and
flown
directly to the
hospital
in Füssen.
The four mountain guards who remained at the site accompanied the three relatives of the
ski tourer
into the valley.
The mission ended after 3.5 hours.
An avalanche hit two ski tourers below the Probstenwand on Saturday.
Fortunately, the two men were not buried, but both suffered injuries.
A 150-meter-wide avalanche also hit Brauneck on Thursday - and buried a touring woman from the district.
With a view to the weather situation, the mountain rescue service is now warning of further departures.
