Bavaria
Helicopter crew discover body of missing climber
The body on the Hochkalter was discovered by a police helicopter (symbol image)
© Kilian Pfeiffer / DPA
In mid-September, a climber on the Hochkalter made emergency calls by phone. All rescue attempts failed due to snowfall. It is now clear that the 24-year-old is dead.
After almost a month, an Austrian police helicopter found the body of a missing climber on the Hochkalter in Upper Bavaria. As a police spokesman said on Friday, an alpine rescue team rescued the dead 24-year-old on Thursday.
Climbers fell into snow on the Hochkalter
The mountaineer from Lower Saxony set out on a high-alpine tour on September 17th when it snowed on the Hochkalter in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden. He then slipped below the 2,607-meter-high summit, as reported by the Bavarian Red Cross. He made several calls to 911, saying he could barely hold himself up in the snowstorm and the freezing cold. Then the contact broke off. Rescue workers had tried to find the young man in a large-scale search operation.