Missing near Hirlatz in Hallstatt in Upper Austria: Unfortunately, the concern that a mountain hiker had been in an accident was confirmed. He was found dead. After a call for help to his wife: “I’m lost”, the connection was broken.
The 73-year-old German left at 8 a.m. on Friday and took off via an unmarked Jägersteig to the three peaks of the Hirlatz – there’s the front, the middle and the back Hirlatz, all higher than 1900 meters. But he got lost and called his wife shortly before 2 p.m.
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Then the connection was broken and the woman tried to reach her husband several times. no. In the evening, she finally alerted the Hallstatt mountain rescue service. Together with the Alpine police, the search started, but it had to be called off in the dark.
A search has been underway since Saturday morning with a large contingent of mountain rescuers and alpine police officers, and the helicopter has also been requested. The mobile phone could be found, but the search radius was two kilometers.
In the morning came the sad certainty: the mountain hiker was found dead. He had fallen over steep terrain into a ditch and was mortally wounded.
Source: Krone

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