Schwangau - fatal incident on Tegelberg: On Monday lunchtime, a 63-year-old tourist fell on the via ferrata and was killed.
As the police announced this afternoon, witnesses to the accident reported the fall of a person on the Tegelberg via ferrata on Monday afternoon.
A rescue helicopter immediately brought the emergency services to the crash site.
There they could only find out that the man had died.
According to the police headquarters in Kempten, the victim is a 63-year-old tourist.
The mountain rescue service's crisis intervention team looked after his wife, who had taken the train to Tegelberg.
The Alpine task force of the police took over the rescue as well as the investigation into the course of the accident.
The mountain rescue service Füssen and a police helicopter supported the rescue.