Looking for the cell phone: Man falls 40 meters on Calvary

Created: 04/01/2022 13:04

By: Melina Staar

Use on Calvary: The rescuers and the emergency doctor treat the fallen young man.

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While looking for his mobile phone, a young man fell on the Tölz Calvary on Tuesday evening.

In doing so, he sustained serious injuries.

The mountain rescue team moved out.

Bad Tölz

– It was an extremely unusual mission that the Bad Tölz Mountain Rescue Service deployed on Tuesday evening.

"I've been here for 20 years, but we haven't had to save anyone on Calvary," says Johannes Kuntze-Fechner, deputy head of the Tölz mountain rescue service.

One person was rescued with serious injuries.

What happened?

Around 9 p.m., two young men were walking up Calvary.

One of the two - from the Bad Tölz area - lost his mobile phone on the descent.

When he was looking for it, he fell about 40 meters down a gully in the very steep and partly rocky forest terrain.

Finally he came to rest.

Accident at Calvary: Man falls in steep and rocky forest terrain

At 9:08 p.m., the rescue control center informed the Bad Tölz mountain rescue service, the Isarwinkel operations manager and the land rescue service about the person who had fallen on Calvary.

The exact location was initially unknown.

Therefore, the mountain rescue team set out from the highest point of the mountain along the hiking trails in the direction of Fröhlichgasse.

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The companion of the crashed person who had made the report was found so quickly.

“From there it was relatively easy to see where he must have fallen.

You can see it from below and from above,” says Kuntze-Fechner.

Mountain rescue service on Calvary: rescuers pull the injured up with a special rope

The mountain rescue doctor and another mountain rescuer provided first aid to the injured person.

"The patient was responsive the whole time," says Kuntze-Fechner.

Two other rescuers were lowered with mountain stretchers and other rescue equipment.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team set up the so-called Dyneema rope rescue device for safe rescue.

"It's a special rope, especially for mountain rescue," explains Kuntze-Fechner.

You can use it to pull a person up over long distances, and it is intended specifically for rescue from rock faces.

The patient was pulled up with this rope and handed over to the emergency services.

Crash on Calvary: The mountain rescue service had already practiced similar situations

He had sustained various injuries.

"It's hard to say exactly how he fell," says the rescuer.

About an hour and a half after the alarm was raised, the patient was admitted to the emergency room of the Tölz city clinic.

The mission was over for the 15 mountain rescuers and the emergency doctor around 11 p.m.

The fact that the mountain rescue service, in cooperation with the Tölz fire brigade, had carried out an exercise at this point on the Calvary just a few years ago was an advantage for the rescue.

Especially with regard to Leonhardi, preparations were made for operations in the area.

"There are some steep ditches there." For example, it was simulated that a carriage would crash.

But such a mission as on Tuesday is extremely unlikely.

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