The mountain rescue service rescued a hiker from Lower Saxony from the Bismarck grotto in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach on Sunday night. The 29-year-old climbed into a 1,200 meter long and 52 meter deep karst cave with another hiker and fell there. He injured his leg. His fellow hiker alerted the local mountain rescue services, who requested special forces due to the operational situation. They climbed into the cave with ropes. The patient was transported about 25 meters through the steep and narrow cave shaft to the cave exit with the aid of a cable winch. According to Maximilian Knab from the Amberg mountain rescue service, the mission ended four hours after midnight. In Franconian Switzerland there are hundreds of caves where accidents happen again and again.
Mountain rescue rescues hikers from cave – Bavaria
