Alps: German Austrian vacationers should pay their rescue by helicopter

Dornbirn (Austria) – They are young, inexperienced and have overestimated themselves.

Six German hikers from Baden-Württemberg must now be rescued with the helicopter from the mountains in Austria Pay on your own pocket.

Young hikers started without a plan and equipment

The group between the ages of 20 and 22 had a tour in the Alps Started, which far exceeded their strength. And also in winter conditions.

“Due to exhaustion and inadequate equipment,” said a spokeswoman for the responsible for the State Police Directorate in Vorarlberg, the Germans would have the emergency call Rescue workers alarmed.

When it dawned, they called for help

The six started their hike below the Kobelalpe (973 meters over Dornbirn) on Sunday afternoon and were still on the rise of the Mörzelspitze, which was almost 1000 meters higher (1830 meters, Bregenzerwald Mountains).

The police helicopter “Libelle” brought them Wanderer ins.

Police considers tour to be grossly negligent

Due to a lack of tour planning, inadequate local knowledge and inadequate equipment, the classifies police the tour of the Germans as gross negligence. Now it is being checked whether the tourists have to bear the applications themselves, according to which it currently looks.

A police spokeswoman for BILD: “The helicopter is submitted to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which writes an invoice.”