The Neukirchen mountain rescue service in Salzburg was on duty until the early hours of Tuesday evening. A mountain climber from Germany was lost. But the deployment proved difficult. The most unfavorable conditions prevailed at more than 3,000 meters altitude.
By Tuesday evening, the mountain rescue service in Neukirchen received a call. A German climber was on the phone. He got lost in the dense fog below the summit (Geigerscharte area). At around 8 p.m., two mountain rescue teams were flown by the Martin 6 rescue helicopter to a plateau at about 9,000 feet (2,700 m).
A difficult descent followed
But it can’t go any further. “There was dense fog, so unfortunately we still had a long way to climb in very bad conditions,” says Neukirchner operations and local manager Albert Kogler. It was not until around 10:30 p.m. that the emergency services found the severely hypothermic and weakened mountaineer in the rugged terrain at an altitude of about 3,300 meters.
After an initial supply, the difficult descent began in the dark with the German on the ridge: “The snow conditions were dangerous and the terrain was very demanding, and the guy was also very weak. We had to rappel it down for hours or use crampons and later skis to the Kürsingerhütte gondola station. The mission of the 16 mountain rescuers from Neukirchen finally ended at 05:00. And that with success.
Source: Krone
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