Bad tour planning and questionable equipment brought two young Finns in a critical situation in the Tyroolean Rofan Mountains. When the emergency services offered the salvation through helicopters, they rejected: they were not insured and the money was clearly lacking for an expensive helmet.
The 28-year-old and his 25-year-old girlfriend are currently on holiday in Münster (District Kufstein). For a mountain tour they were looking for a mountain railway that has already started the summer operation and came across the Roofi cable rink in Maurach. They drove to Erfurter Hütte on Sunday and went apart from there to Krahnsattel. Around 2 p.m. the tour for the Finns was over again. The reason: they could not get any further and raised alarm in the Tyrol Control Center.
GPS -Sent data sent
“I am able to contact the two via the Tyrol Control Center,” says Operations Manager Gerold Stock of the Mountain Rescue Kramsach/surroundings. The two climbed people sent their GPS data to the head of the operations, so that their location could virtually determine.
View ensured that you wanted more
It turned out that the seemingly not very popular Finns initially followed a GPS track that they had downloaded on the internet. He led her to the Crooked Saddle (2000 m). There, the fantastic view made the wish of the Finn to Meer.
Summit Cross attracted Duo
Because the small top cross of the small well -known Cesida (2080 m) kept their eyes of the saddle. You select this spontaneously as your goal.
They continued to stand up about padless, but snow -free terrain, but in a one saddle in the area of the top it was called “end station”. Because a via Ferrata in this area starts – but the duo had no equipment with it.
Nothing left in sneakers
However, they no longer dared to go down. The sneakers that confirmed the two contributed to the fact that there was nothing left.
Three mountain guides in the rescue operations
Four Kramsacher Mountain rescuers -including three mountain guides -then walked the Roofi cable rink to the Erfurt Hut and reached the non -wounded walkers a little later. “I had presented a helicopter in advance. But because they had no insurance, they didn’t want that,” says head of operations.
They preferred the cheaper variant of a terrestrial recovery. “We brought the Finns back to the mountain station on the short rope and then even reached the last track in the valley.”
Bargain compared to helicopter flight
The Finns still have to reach for the salvation in the wallet, especially because four mountain rescues in the field and a mountain polder in the headquarters were used in the valley. In comparison with a helicopter flight, it looks more like a bargain …
Source: Krone
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