On Thursday, shortly before 9:00 am, it became sad certainty: the 62-year-old Tyrolean, who had been wanted with numerous troops since Wednesday evening in the area of St. Johann in Tirol, was found dead, as reported. Mountain rescuers found the woman’s body under an old snow field in the Rettenbach area in the hiking area at the Römerhof in St. Johann.
The 62-year-old’s daughter had reported missing early Wednesday evening. Her mother had an appointment with a friend at 6:30 pm, but she did not come and could not be reached. The night before, the 62-year-old had not answered. The next of kin then independently searched for the missing person and found their car in the so-called “Törfchen” parking lot at the Römerhof. The cell phone was faulty.
A major search was immediately launched involving the St. Johann and Kitzbühel mountain rescue services, the St. Johann fire brigade and several police patrols. Sniffer dogs were also used.
“We almost only had the car as a reference point,” says Markus Prantl, operations manager of the St. Johann mountain rescue service. It was also known that the woman’s favorite hiking route leads from the parking lot towards the Schleier waterfall. “But the route network here is very branched and extensive, so the conditions were very difficult.”
Search aborted shortly before midnight with no results
The mountain rescue asked the police helicopter Libelle Tirol for a visual flight, more than 30 troops have searched the hiking area “Moor and more” terrestrially. With the help of drones and thermal imagers from the Kufstein fire brigade, attempts were later made to find the missing person from the air. “We had to abort the search around 11:30 p.m. without finding anything,” says Markus Prantl.
The operation continued at 7 a.m. Thursday with the additional participation of the Waidring Mountain Rescue Service. The dragonfly brought mountain rescuers to the vicinity of the Rettenbachsloot for a nice search. Shortly before 9:00 am, they discovered the woman’s body under an old snow field near the Randkluft.
Tyrolean should have fallen 70 meters
“The woman must have slipped on the hiking trail and fell about 70 meters,” Prantl informs. The mountain rescuers – in total there were about 55 men on duty – recovered the body, the Libelle Tirol flew it into the valley. The situation under the snow probably prevented a faster find. It is not clear when the accident happened.
Source: Krone
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