Two Polish ice climbers got lost in the Gasteinertal (Salzburg) on Sunday and had to spend the night in the Höhkar. The mountain rescue service of Bad Gastein was able to rescue the two on Monday morning.
The two Poles (34 and 39 years old) already climbed the ice climbing fall “Mordor” on Sunday, which is one of the longest ice falls in Austria at 315 meters. “They said it got dark yesterday,” says Roland Pfund, manager of the local office and operations. “So they could no longer see the descent into the steep, rocky and icy terrain.”
Therefore, the two ice climbers, who had good equipment, had to spend the night in the so-called Höhkar. But at night it snowed heavily. The two men found no sign of a safe descent on Monday morning and alerted the Bad Gastein mountain rescue team.
Unharmed but exhausted
Eight Gastein mountain rescuers climbed to them in the fog and in the snow – under adverse conditions. The snow was waist-deep in the extremely steep ice and rocky terrain. “At around 10 a.m., we finally found them unharmed and accompanied them almost 200 meters down insured for our own descent,” Pfund said. The Poles were taken to the valley, exhausted. The operation took about six hours.
Source: Krone
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