An eleven-year-old boy from Germany who was on a ski trip to Tyrol with his school class ended up in hospital with serious injuries on Wednesday. The student crashed his skis into the wall of the valley station.
Wednesday was the second day of the school ski course in the St. Johanner Bergbahnen ski area for the students of a secondary school from Bavaria. A teacher (56), who guided a group of eight, skied with the young people on a blue slope around 2:30 p.m. “The slope runs in the area of the 10-person Eichenhof gondola,” the police say.
Six students would leave independently
About 150 to 200 meters above the valley station of this lift, the German and her group stopped to wait for two students who had not yet caught up. “In the meantime, she instructed the six other students to drive forward independently to the valley station of the gondola,” said the director.
Flown to hospital
However, contrary to the teacher’s instructions, the group of six skis in the right part of the piste, where the slope has a slope of about 20 degrees. At the end of the slope, the eleven-year-old ended up crashing into the wall of the valley station for unknown reasons. “He was seriously injured as a result, was flown by emergency helicopter to the district hospital in St. Johann in Tirol and admitted to hospital,” the investigators explain.
Source: Krone
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