Not a day without an avalanche output, including the use of the Mountain Rescue and Helicopter Fleet, is currently available in Tyrol. An avalanche was reported on Sunday morning in the area of the Kitzbüheler Alps. The search for buried runs. Dense fog makes it difficult to use. Avalanche danger remains considerable.
Shortly after 10 a.m. an avalanche was reported in the Kitzbüheler Alps in the Achterste Kelchsau. The alpinist may have been on the SO -weared Drestkop on the north side on the border to the short background. An avalanche was then detached in the Alpine site. According to the first reports, a person could have been buried.
Two helicopters are currently in use in the area, and the mountain venues of Hopfgarten and Westendorf and the Avalanche Dog were also brought to the scene of the accident. “The use is probably bound to the ground because a dense fog ceiling hangs in the area,” says the Tyrol Control Center.
Seriously injured man flown to clinic
It was only on Saturday that a German (45) was taken away by an avalanche at the Pitztaler glacier and seriously injured. He and his brother (51) were there in the open space and opened a snowboard avalanche at about 3050 meters above sea level. While the 51-year-old was able to pull his airbag and was spared, his brother was hit.
He was cared for by the crew of the emergency helicopter Martin 9 on the avalanche cone and then flew to the clinic in Innsbruck with serious injury.
Avalanche danger in parts of Tyrol
As already reported, the amount of the past has increased the avalanche risk in many parts of Tyrol. In the Stubai Alps or in East -Tirol, dangerous levels 3 (considerably) apply in many valleys and above the forest border.
In the area of the Kitzbüheler -alpes, the danger level 1 (low), above the forest border at level 2 (moderate) is. According to the Avalanche -warning service of the state of Tyrol, the trend of the avalanche fighter is decreasing.
Source: Krone
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