Tag: Mountain rescue
Always at the Watzmann: Mountain rescue teams have to go on winter missions twice – Bavaria
Did the 19-year-old tourist from Finland notice what happened just three days after his daring trip to the Watzmann? If it hadn’t already become clear to him on Easter Sunday…
In sneakers on the Watzmann – Bavaria
Did the 19-year-old tourist from Finland notice what happened just three days after his daring trip to the Watzmann? If it hadn’t already become clear to him on Easter Sunday…
Austria: Why mountain rescuers had more missions than ever before – travel
The mountain rescuers in Tyrol have never had to go out as often as they did this year. Hermann Spiegl, regional manager of the local mountain rescue service, explains what…
Zugspitze: friends save people buried after an avalanche – Bavaria
In an avalanche on the Zugspitze, two young men were carried away and buried. On Tuesday, three ski tourers from the Weilheim am Gatterl region were out and about. There,…
Bad Hindelang: 63-year-old man falls 75 meters – dead – Bavaria
A 63-year-old climber fell around 75 meters in the Oberallgäu district and died. The man probably missed the start of a via ferrata near Bad Hindelang and was further up,…
Mountain drama on the Hochkalter: The rescuers have to wait in the valley – Bavaria
The mountain rescuers in Berchtesgadener Land, who have been trying to get an injured 24-year-old mountaineer from Lower Saxony from the more than 2600 meter high and now snow-covered Hochkalter…
Dramatic search for mountaineers on the Hochkalter continues – Bavaria
Also on Monday it rains again and again in Ramsau, the clouds hang low over the valley. The people from the Ramsau mountain rescue service, who want to save a…
Ramsau: The search for a mountaineer who had an accident on the Hochkalter continues – Bavaria
A 24-year-old mountaineer had an accident on the Hochkalter in the Berchtesgaden Alps and has been wanted by mountain rescuers for two days. Due to the bad weather, the search…