Two mountain hikers fell to their deaths below the Sonnenberg ridge near Unterammergau. According to previous knowledge, the two were traveling independently of each other, but lost their footing in almost the same place, as the police announced on Wednesday.
The rescue workers went in search of a missing hiker from Munich on Tuesday. They discovered the body of the 51-year-old below the Sonnenberg ridge. Very close by, only about 30 meters below the Munich victim, they found a second dead man. It was a 48-year-old from Ingolstadt. He hadn’t been missing up to that point.
According to the investigations of the Alpine police task force, the 48-year-old climbed the Sonnenbergrat on Tuesday, which has exposed passages that are not very easy to walk on. The man from Ingolstadt fell at a height of around 1,600 meters and came to rest after about 200 meters of altitude.
The man from Munich had already left for the tour on Sunday and was reported missing by relatives on Tuesday. He hadn’t come to his place of work for two days. Since car was discovered in Oberammergau. According to previous knowledge, he went from there over the Kofel in the direction of Pürschling, lost his footing on the north side of the Sonnenberggrat at an altitude of about 1,600 meters and fell to his death about 200 meters above sea level.
The dead were brought to the valley by helicopter. In both cases, a police mountain guide from the Alpine task force is conducting the investigation under the direction of the public prosecutor’s office. This is the usual procedure for fatalities in the mountains.