Because a drunken holidaymaker (24) had not returned to his accommodation, a search was launched on Sunday night by mountain rescue services, fire brigade and police in the Tyrolean Zillertal. His companions had sounded the alarm. Hours later, the Dutchman finally reappeared under his own power. Now the young man is faced with a hefty bill.
After après ski, the four holidaymakers were on their way to their accommodation in Gerlos when one of the men broke away from his companions and they continued on without him. While the other three waited in their homes, the fourth in the group remained missing.
So they reported their friend to the police as missing around 2:45 am. The executive branch initially searched alone, then with the support of ten fire and mountain rescue teams each.
“We searched the entire hamlet,” said Christian Münnich, head of the Gerlos mountain rescue service. But there was no trace of the missing person. “At around 6:30 a.m., we decided to suspend the search for the time being.” Before we could continue, the Dutchman eventually resurfaced on his own: shortly before 8 a.m. he was found unharmed in front of a hotel in Gerlos.
Mountain rescue costs almost a thousand euros
His involuntary nightly “journey” will come to a 24-year duration: “The mountain rescue service will issue a bill,” said operations manager Münnich. The amount required for the deployment of the ten mountain rescuers will probably amount to just under a thousand euros.
The vacationer will probably have to figure out who ultimately has to pay for them with his three companions, who, after all, initiated the search.
Source: Krone
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