Tyrol
Hiker from Stuttgart falls to his death in the Alps
The man who died in the accident went on a hike at the Tyrolean Schneidspitze and never returned home
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A man from Stuttgart died while hiking in the Tyrolean Alps. The police assume that he slipped on a snowfield and fell almost 150 meters.
A man from Stuttgart is in a crash in the Austrian Alps died. As the police in Tyrol reported on Sunday, the 43-year-old set off alone on a tour to the Schneidspitze in the Wängle area the day before. In a video message, he told his relatives that he was stopping the hike just below the approximately 2,000 meter high summit and turning back.
Hiker dies in fall in Tyrolean Alps
After the hiker failed to return on Saturday, his family alerted the police. On Sunday, the crew of a police helicopter discovered the dead missing man in steep terrain below the summit near the border with Bavaria. Based on the tracks, the police assume that he slipped on a snowfield and fell around 150 meters.