GAP - Since 1922, the German Alpine Association has been awarding the "Green Cross", an award for special merits in mountain rescue. This time the mountain rescue service Garmisch-Partenkirchen was honored with it. On behalf of the standby team, the former deputy standby manager Thomas Müller and the mountain rescue emergency doctor Dr. Armin Berner received the award from DAV President Josef Klenner.
In countless rescue missions, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Mountain Rescue Service has proven that it is a team in one of the busiest and most demanding alpine areas. In the laudation, this cooperation was placed in the foreground. Rescue from high alpine terrain is usually not an individual service, be it the care and transport of an accident victim or the joint risk assessment during an operation to be carried out. It is the decisions and performance in the team that lead to success. "A team that is committed to common goals, works together harmoniously, enjoys work and performs excellently."
The area where the Garmisch-Partenkirchen mountain rescue service is active include well-known names such as Jubiläumsgrat, Oberreintal or Hochwanner. On the Jubiläumsgrat alone, 220 people have been rescued in the last ten years - injured, exhausted, blocked and deceased people have been rescued. Sometimes this happens under difficult conditions. This year, one person in the Grad team was rescued after two days of snowfall and thunderstorms. Jan Ulbrich, the deputy chairman of Bergwacht Bayern, who gave the laudation, emphasized: “It is always the team’s common goal to provide the best possible help with a calculated amount of self-endangerment.The German Alpine Association awards the Green Cross 2021 to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Mountain Rescue Service for their achievements as a team in the most difficult missions in recent years. "
The Garmisch-Partenkirchen readiness was founded in 1927.
Today 112 mountain rescuers are active on a voluntary basis.
The readiness handles up to 1000 missions annually.
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