Garnitzklamm (Austria) – It was a hiking vacation that they had done many times – but this time he ended fatally for one of the two friends (59, 40) from Germany!
The two men were traveling in Carinthia. For years they have always spent a week together on the Kühweger Alm in the Gailtal (Austria). On the sunny Whit Monday around 9.30 a.m. Hike on.
German loses and falls
Around 10.30 a.m., on the way to lunch in an inn in the valley, the drama: the 59-year-old slipped on the narrow climb and fell around 15 meters into the stream bed of the garnish gorge. His friend went right behind him, reached for him – in vain. The 40-year-old immediately relegated to the accident and wanted to get help. But he had no cell phone reception. He asked other hikers who Mountain rescue to alert. The RK1 rescue helicopter landed at the scene of the accident a little later.
Hikers dies of his head injuries
“We could no longer help him due to the strong head injuries,” said Thomas Jank from ARA flight rescue to “Kronen Zeitung“. Die Rescue workers could only determine the death of the man.
Due to the rough terrain, the dead man was lifted out of the gorge with a dew from the Libelle Carinthia police helicopter. The police later confirmed that the accident had occurred in the middle section of the gorge – an area that is more technically demanding. According to the local media, the climb was damp and slippery at the time of the accident. The garnish gorge is fundamentally well secured, but treacherously.
How exactly the two Germans came from is so far unclear. The 40-year-old friend of the crashed hiker was served psychologically. Investigations on the exact cause of the accident. So far, there are no indications of external debt.
Another incident in Tyrol goes out lightly
Just a day before, there was a dramatic incident in the Tyrolean mountains: a German hiker got lost from the Zugspitze in the Ehrwald municipal area, got into absurd terrain and had to stay on a small rock on one leg for hours – without a cell phone, with poor equipment. It was only around 5 a.m. he could be saved with a rope rescue.
With the drone, the emergency services were able to locate the man on the Zugspitze in Austria. He clung to a mountain on one leg