A 21-year-old was missing from the Watzmann for eight months.
A mountaineer found the young trail runner dead.
He was rescued by emergency services.
Ramsau - After eight months there is a sad certainty: On Saturday afternoon (June 12th) a mountaineer found a missing and fatally injured 21-year-old trail runner in the upper re-route at around 2600 meters above the Watzmann-Mittelspitze.
This was announced by the Bavarian Red Cross (district association Berchtesgadener Land).
Trail runner missing since October: mountaineer finds 21-year-old dead below the Watzmann-Mittelspitze
Police and mountain rescue services * have been looking for the young man intensively on foot and from the air for weeks since October 9, despite the early onset of winter.
However, due to the large amount of fresh snow and the often thick clouds, they had no chance of finding it.
At around 3 p.m. on Saturday, the climber's emergency call came through a motionless person in the Little East Face.
The control center in Traunstein alerted the responsible mountain rescue service in Ramsau.
When the head of operations called back, the caller had already dismounted through the demanding and in places snow-covered terrain to provide first aid.
There he had to find out that the victim was already dead, as the BRK further announced.
21-year-old trail runner found dead on the Watzmann after months of uncertainty
The crew of the "Edelweiß 6" police helicopter was already in the region because of a fatal climbing accident on the Untersberg south face on the Berchtesgadener Hochthron.
She flew on to Ramsau, picked up a mountain rescuer and a police mountain guide from the Alpine Task Force (AEG) and set them down at the scene of the accident with the winch.
The police officer recorded the accident and prepared the victim with the mountain rescuer for removal.
In the meantime, the Ramsau mountain rescue service refueled the helicopter *, “so that it could first fly back to Untersberg, pick up the emergency services there from the south face and then, in two approaches, pick up the dead from Watzmann, the two emergency services and the climber by winch could fly into the valley ”, the BRK continued. The mountain rescue service's Crisis Intervention Service (KID) brought the death notice to the deceased's parents. Eleven mountain rescuers from Ramsau were on duty until 7 p.m.
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