Ammergau Alps: Missing Munich dead – another body is discovered near the site
Created: 03/31/2022, 22:24
By: Jennifer Battaglia
A missing mountain hiker was found dead in the Ammergau Alps.
Another dead man was discovered during a search.
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In the Ammergau Alps, a missing man from Munich could only be found dead.
Search teams discovered another dead person near the site.
Unterammergau – On Tuesday (March 29) the body of a 51-year-old from Munich was recovered in the Ammergau Alps.
The man had previously been reported missing by his family after not showing up at work for two days.
According to a press report from the Oberbayern Süd police headquarters, as part of the missing person search that had been initiated, the Munich resident's vehicle was found on the same day in Oberammergau in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district.
Mountain accident in the Ammergau Alps: Missing Munich dead
Helpers from the police's Alpine Task Force (AEG) and the mountain rescue services from Oberammergau and Unterammergau took part in the search operation that had been initiated.
On Tuesday afternoon around 4:20 p.m., the missing person could only be found dead below the Sonnenberg ridge, which stretches from the Kofel to the Pürschling.
According to current knowledge, the man from Munich walked over the Kofel in the direction of Pürschling on the morning of March 27, lost his footing on the north side of the Sonnenberg ridge at an altitude of around 1,600 meters and, according to the police, fell about 200 meters to his death.
Mountain accident in the Ammergau Alps: Search teams find more dead
The search teams discovered another dead mountaineer only about 30 meters below the Munich victim.
It is a 48-year-old from Ingolstadt.
However, he had not yet been reported missing at that time.
According to the investigations of the Alpine task force, the man from Ingolstadt climbed the Sonnenbergrat on Tuesday and fell, also at a height of about 1,600 meters, and came to rest after about 200 meters of altitude.
Both bodies were recovered by helicopter and brought to the valley.
In both cases, the investigations were conducted by a police mountain guide from the Alpine task force under the direction of the public prosecutor.
(jb)
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