At the Halserspitz: Man slips and falls down

Created: 05/15/2022, 18:07

By: Gabi Werner

At the Halserspitz in Kreuth, a 25-year-old slipped and fell on Saturday while descending.

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A climber was seriously injured in a crash on the Halserspitz in Kreuth on Saturday evening.

The 25-year-old slipped on the remains of old snow and fell down.

Kreuth

– The Rottach-Egern mountain rescue service was alerted at around 7:30 p.m.

A couple, both in their mid-20s, from the north of Munich was just descending from the Halserspitz in the direction of Kreuth when the man lost his footing, slipped over a rocky old snow field and was seriously injured after about 50 to 80 meters.

Two hikers who had accidentally observed the accident immediately made an emergency call.

The operations manager immediately notifies the rescue helicopter

As the mountain rescue service reports, the operations manager first got an overview and gathered the emergency services at the rescue station.

After all the information had been obtained, he alerted the rescue helicopter Christoph Murnau.

He flew directly to the scene of the accident in order to treat the injured person as quickly as possible, according to the press report.

After dropping off the medical crew at the injured person, the helicopter picked up two air rescuers who were ready and flown to the man's uninjured partner.

The casualty himself was taken to a clinic after first aid.

The man's partner was in shock

Meanwhile, the two mountain rescuers took care of the shocked partner of the 25-year-old.

After the man was handed over to the hospital, the helicopter flew back to the site and picked up the woman and her caregivers.

A total of seven mountain rescuers were deployed.

A week earlier: a person slipped on the Altweibersteig to the Tegernseer Hütte

Only a week earlier, the rescue workers of the Rottach mountain rescue service had been called to a person who had slipped on the Altweibersteig to the Tegernseer Hütte.

Here, too, the helicopter was used, which took the slightly injured hiker on board and flew to a hospital.

"The police crew did a top flight performance in the adverse conditions," says the mountain rescue service report.

There was heavy fog that day.

Mountain rescue warns of icy snowfields

The mountain rescue service takes the incidents as an opportunity and asks all mountaineers not to underestimate the current conditions in the mountains.

"There are still large areas of frozen snow in some places, which can become dangerous."

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