The Leutasch mountain rescue service in the Innsbruck-Land district had to leave on a strange mission late Saturday afternoon. In the Geistklamm a German (27) climbed over a railing and fell into the stream. He may have been seriously injured. His equipment was useless for this adventure.
The German and his companion walked through the modern and well-protected gorge. He was probably looking for a special staircase around 6.40 pm and climbed over a parapet. There was steep terrain below. There he descended a few meters before slipping and falling 15 meters into the river.
He suffered an open fracture of his ankle. His companion immediately raised the alarm. When the Leutasch mountain rescue team arrived, the man was standing in the stream and was already severely hypothermic. Two mountain rescuers and a mountain rescue doctor abseiled about 25 meters to the injured man using the rope before he was rescued by the C1 rescue helicopter and flown to the accident clinic in Murnau. His companion was taken to the train station in Mittenwald.
Problems among emergency services
It was incomprehensible to the mountain rescuers around operations and local office manager Michael Strigl how the man came up with this idea: “It is a complete mystery to us why he climbed over the parapet. He was probably looking for a kick.” In addition to the dangerous action, the German was also completely ill-equipped for his adventure, Strigl criticizes: “He was wearing low shoes. That’s enough for the canyon, but on steep terrain it’s crazy.”
Source: Krone
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