A Bavarian group of mountaineers had incredible luck in Salzburg on Monday. During the descent from the Großer Wiesbachhorn (Pinzgau) a huge snowfall broke loose for them. The alpinists could no longer move forward and made a distress call.
The group of ten mountaineers from Bavaria started from the Heinrich-Schwaiger-Haus on the 3564 meter high summit of the Großer Wiesbachhorn in the Glockner Group. They reached the top around ten o’clock. The subsequent, planned descent led the alpinists aged between 41 and 61 over the Vorderen Bratschenkopf and the alpine, exposed ascent of the Bratschen in the direction of the Schwarzenberghütte (2257 metres).
As the well-equipped mountaineers descended at around 3 p.m. at an altitude of 8,000 feet (2,423 meters), in the lower third of the Viola, a sliding snowfall suddenly fell on the side above them. This fault, which was several hundred meters high, blocked the German alpinists from descending through the slanted and exposed rock plates.
The unharmed climbers have issued a distress call. The crew of the police helicopter carried out the rope rescue together with an alpine police officer from Zell am See. The investigation of the Alpine Police found that the tour group was very lucky with this event. If the mighty snow and ice masses had dislodged a short time later, the group would have been right in the line of fall of the dislodged mass.
Source: Krone
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