Berchtesgarden
Missing climber found dead on Hochkalter
Mountain rescuers are looking for a 24-year-old climber on the Hochkalter near Ramsau under difficult conditions. photo
© Markus Leitner/BRK Berchtesgadener Land/dpa
In mid-September, a 24-year-old from Lower Saxony had an accident on the Hochkalter in Berchtesgaden. He makes another emergency call. Mountain rescuers have been looking for him for days. Now there is sad certainty.
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.
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.