Climbing fans with a handicap will be impressed with the hike to the Gindlalm 3
Created: 08/12/2022, 02:00 p.m
By: Christine Merk
A smile all over the face: Amelie was part of the group that successfully climbed to the Gindlalm 3.
Some were using walking aids, some with special wheelchairs, others with sticks.
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In a group of the DAV Miesbach, people with mental and physical handicaps live out their love for climbing - usually indoors.
Now they have ascended to Gindlalm 3.
They impressed many with their joie de vivre.
District – Anyone who met the group was probably surprised – and happy.
Because so many beaming and happy faces are not commonplace in the mountains either.
The excursion was not every day, Brigitte Dembinski can attest to that.
She climbed up from Hausham to Gindlalm 3 with 50 people, 18 of them with a handicap, which made this hike a real challenge.
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Climbing fans with a handicap will be impressed with the hike to the Gindlalm 3
Dembinski has been leading the H3 group in the Miesbach section of the German Alpine Club for seven years.
There are special people who meet here every two weeks in the KletterZ in Weyarn.
They come from the districts of Miesbach, Munich, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Rosenheim.
All have a physical or mental disability or both.
3H stands for "high up with a handicap".
Dembinski now wanted to give these people an experience in the real mountains.
She chose the Gindlalm 3 in Hausham as her destination and a Saturday in July as her date.
Then it was time to organize.
There was a lot to think about because Dembinski had a big goal.
"It should be a positive experience for everyone and everyone should be able to move freely on the Alm terrace," she explains.
For the wheelchair users, she needed mountaineering equipment because normal wheelchairs tip over easily on steep terrain.
She borrowed them from a friend at the Pfennigparade in Munich.
However, the “normal” wheelchairs had to be taken to the Alm so that the handicapped could move around without help.
Then there was a need for parking for the cars the group was traveling in.
The community of Hausham helped here in a very uncomplicated manner, reserving eight parking spaces for the day of the excursion.
After all, many helpers had to be on board for the ascent itself: “pushing, pulling, supporting and motivating”, as she describes figuratively.
She found them in the alpine club, with the trainers of the KletterZ, in the families of the handicappers and last but not least with the host couple of the Gindlalm 3. They reserved the day for a private party and promised to come by car if someone ran out of strength on the way .
That was not necessary.
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“Deeply impressed by the joie de vivre”
"It was exciting, exhausting and yet everyone managed to achieve this great goal," reports Dembinski.
She had set up seven stations along the approximately six-kilometer trail and thought up questions about the mountains for them, such as “What animals are there in the mountains?” or “What do you have to watch out for in the mountains?” She wrote down at each station herself the answers and then surprised them with a muesli bar, dextrose or another little thing.
The route was completed on schedule.
"After four hours we were at the Gindlalm," says Dembinski.
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There the group could expect cool drinks, "loving service" and plenty of food.
"The landlady, Annelies Grimm, organized everything superbly and surprised us with her legendary Kaiserschmarrn," reports Dembinksi.
At the hut, an acquaintance from the Alpine Club took her aside, who had agreed to help.
What he experienced that day was unique, he admitted - deeply impressed by the joie de vivre that the handicappers radiated.
Dembinski himself was moved.
Everyone helped everyone, she reports.
From the beginning there was a huge sense of community.
"It was really gigantic."
The climbing group H3
is for people with physical and/or mental disabilities.
They are supported by specially trained trainers.
The contact person is Brigitte Dembinski: brigitte.dembinski@alpenverein-miesbach.de or 01 73/ 5 80 60 11. Anyone who wants to support the project with a donation can do so via the Upward Association, www.foerderverein-aufwaerts.de.
