While crossing the Alps, a hiker fell several meters into the depths and died. The body was only found ten days later.
Ridnaun – The Romedius pilgrimage trail is a 184-kilometer-long long-distance hiking trail that leads from the Romedius Church in Thaur in the Austrian Inn Valley near Innsbruck to the pilgrimage church of San Romedio, which stands spectacularly on a rock in the Non Valley in Trentino (Italy). The route leads a total of 9,728 meters uphill and 9,773 meters downhill. “For certain sections of the route, surefootedness and mountain experience are necessary,” says the pilgrimage booklet for the trail. The highest point is the 2,700-meter-high Schneebergscharte in the South Tyrolean Passeier Valley in northern Italy.
When Wanderin stopped coming home, the family raised the alarm
A 52-year-old woman from Lemberg near Stuttgart set out on this Alpine crossing from Thaur on September 8th. “She was supposed to be back with her family last weekend,” reports Thomas Windisch, head of the Pflersch mountain rescue service, to IPPEN.MEDIA. “She had last spent the night in Pflerschertal.” That would have been the fourth stage from Obernberg in Tyrol across the border to South Tyrol. The hiker was supposed to arrive in Ridnauntal next. But that didn’t happen.
On Monday, the family raised the alarm because the woman had not returned home at the announced time. On Wednesday, a large search operation was launched using cell phone tracking, drones and search dogs. The hiker’s lifeless body was finally found around 11 a.m. in the impassable terrain about 80 meters below a hiking trail. The body was recovered by the Pelikan 2 rescue helicopter. Windisch: “The hiker had fallen 80 meters into the depths.”
Several fatal mountain accidents in recent days
In recent days there have been several fatal mountain accidents, most of which were caused by avalanches. In the Salzburg region, a German woman died after being buried by an avalanche on Tuesday. A tourist from Canada froze to death in the Dolomites. In Obertauern (Salzburg), a ski tourer died under a snow cornice.
On Saturday, a 71-year-old hiker from the Coburg district (Upper Franconia) was buried by an avalanche in the Tyrolean Eng Valley in the Karwendel. His body was recovered on Thursday. A group of ten mountain hikers from Germany and the Netherlands, who were staying in a mountain hut nearby, were evacuated by police helicopter because they wanted to descend through the avalanche area.
Ten other guests from another mountain hut nearby were brought down to the valley by freight elevator after the previous helicopter evacuation caused uproar across Austria. A similar operation recently led to a rescue operation in Austria because the rope came off the reel. (jw)
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