A look at a hiking map would have been better: with the help of an app, a Pole got so lost during the descent from Traunstein that the 43-year-old threatened to lose his life and had to be rescued by the Gmunden mountain rescuers.
A 43-year-old Pole set off on Sunday at around 9:00 am on the 1,691-metre-high Traunstein in the municipality of Gmunden. He chose the Hans-Hernler-Steig to climb the via ferrata with difficulty level D in the upper section of the Traunsee. From the Traunstein plateau, after a rest, he decided to descend the unmarked, steep “Zierlersteig”, which he had found in an app.
Very much missed
At an altitude of about 1,000 meters above sea level he missed the further course of the path and descended further into impassable terrain. He could not continue when he reached a rock face at about 650 meters, so he started uphill again. Because he could no longer find the way and was now exhausted, and because of the late hour, he contacted the mountain rescue service in Gmunden at around 18:50 with an emergency call.
Rope railings and abseiling slopes
13 mountain rescuers and an alpine police officer clambered down on the man and prepared a rescue operation on land using rope railings and abseils in the rocky, steep terrain. The darkness made it all the more difficult. With the help of the mountain rescuers, he was brought back to the path around 20:45 and down into the valley around 21:45. The man was unharmed except for minor scratches.
Source: Krone
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