During a mountain rescue training in Hallstatt, a young climber was hit by a rock the size of his fist. He was rescued from the Echernwand by an emergency helicopter using a rope and flown to the hospital in Ischl. There was also an alpine accident in the Almtal.
During a practice day on Saturday, several rope teams from Hallstatt met in the Kreuzstein area to improve climbing technique and practice rope team procedures. At around 11.20 am, during an abseiling process on the constructed abseiling slope, at least two fist-sized stones suddenly came loose, one of which directly hit a 22-year-old from the Gmunden district.
Injured despite wearing a protective helmet
Despite wearing a protective helmet, he was injured to an unspecified degree. Mountain rescue members immediately alerted the rescue control center via an emergency call. The crew of the emergency medical helicopter rescued the injured man and the other people involved directly from the Echernwand with the help of a variable rope. The 22-year-old was flown to the Salzkammergut Klinikum Bad Ischl
Lower leg torn open
Meanwhile, a 45-year-old Czech man went hiking in the Dead Mountains on Saturday. His destination was the Welserhütte in the municipality of Grünau im Almtal. Around 2 p.m. he reached the Fleischbanksattel and descended towards the Welserhütte. In this area the ground is almost completely covered with a blanket of snow.
Collapsed knee-deep in snow
Around 2:30 p.m., the man from Prague fell up to his knees in the snow and injured himself. The hiker was able to descend independently to the Welserhütte and called the emergency call there because the bleeding from the wound was difficult to stop. The emergency medical helicopter picked up the Czech at the Walserhütte and flew him to the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Klinikum Kirchdorf.
Source: Krone
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