A 41-year-old man died on the Wendelstein on Saturday. As the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South announced, the lifeless man was discovered by a skier in the afternoon in the area of the “Zeller Scharte” on the northern side of the mountain, below the so-called “hotel slope”. Any help came too late for the victim. The Alpine task force (AEG) of the police assumes an accident, there is no evidence of outside involvement.
The rescue took place under adverse