A Peruvian (42) will probably never forget her first holiday in Innsbruck. She was optimistic about conquering the Nordkette on foot on Monday before, after a six-hour walk in the dark, she sank into the snow and found herself in the mountains. Not knowing the emergency numbers at home, she took the SIM card out of her mobile phone and dialed the European emergency number.
“We were alerted at 6:30 p.m.,” said Bruno Berloffa, head of Innsbruck’s mountain rescue service. The problem: without a SIM card, there were no coordinates and no telephone contact with the woman. “We only knew that a person was lost in the Seegrube area,” Berloffa tells the “Krone”. “That’s how we alerted the drone team of the professional fire brigade of Innsbruck.”
Rescuers with a gondola on the Nordkette
The Seegrubenbahn was put into operation and brought 16 mountain rescuers and the drone team to the Nordkette. “Thanks in part to the drone, we succeeded in locating the victim quickly. The woman was around 1800 meters in the long valley next to the ski slope,” says Berloffa.
Woman is waist-deep in snow
A Ratrac of the Nordkette railway – suspended from a steel cable – drove down with the mountain rescuers to the Peruvian woman, who lay waist-deep, completely soaked and exhausted in the snow. “We took warming measures for the hypothermic woman and took her to the top station in the Ratrac,” says Berloffa. The cable car took us to Innsbruck, where the charming mountain rescuers even took the holidaymaker back to the hotel.
On the road with light mountain boots
“She wasn’t ill-rested,” Berloffa says. “After all, she was wearing light mountaineering boots. During a weekend operation under the armpit, we had to rescue a person who was walking in the snow in sneakers.”
The Peruvian probably has life insurance. Innsbruck’s mountain rescuers should not be left behind with the costs of the operation.
Source: Krone
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