Two Americans went south to the Stone Sea. A 68-year-old man slipped and fell.
Two mushroom pickers got into trouble on Sunday afternoon in Maria Alm (Pinskov). According to Mountain Rescue, two Americans climbed Napfetzer (1,537 meters) south of the Steinernes Meer area on very steep, rocky and somewhat steeply sloping grass and tree terrain. The elder of the two, a 68-year-old man, slipped and fell. But he got stuck in a tree right up the vertical rock face.
The mushroom hunter's deputy alerted the mountain rescue team, but the rescue helicopter team was only able to find the two men with difficulty and after a long time the coordinates sent by the Americans were incorrect due to the forest. As a rope rescue was not possible directly at the crash site, four mountain rescuers from Chalfeldon were dropped close to the crash site by a police helicopter.
They initially managed to find and protect the younger of the two. Two mountain rescuers then descended about 40 meters and found the injured man. “He was crouched under a tree, under a cliff. In front of a vertical rock face. It was nothing short of a miracle that he stopped,” said Bernd Tritscher, operations manager from the Salfelden Mountain Rescue Service. (APA)
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