Two ski tourers were hit by an avalanche on the Mölltaler Glacier on Sunday. All help came too late for one of them. The ski area was not open on Sunday.
On Sunday, a patch of snow fell from the slopes between the Glacier Jet and the Altecklift valley station on the Mölltaler Glacier. Two ski tourers were swept away by the avalanche. “The men are two Slovaks. The 33-year-old was able to free himself from the snow masses, but all help came too late for his 40-year-old friend,” said Horst Wohlgemuth, head of the Spittal an der Drau Alpine Task Force, describing the situation. operation on Sunday afternoon.
Help came too late, the ski area was closed
Only an hour and a half later was the 33-year-old able to start the rescue chain. “The ski area was closed due to bad weather, there was no one on site, the lifts were stationary,” Wohlgemuth continued.
At the beginning of December, an avalanche victim fell on the Mölltal Glacier: when a Czech freerider (51) made his first tracks in the fresh snow, a piece of snow came loose – the man could no longer escape the snow mass and was swallowed up by them.
Source: Krone
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