Two police helicopters are also in use. The 29-year-old German had been bivouacked near Fusch on Glocknerstrasse (Pinzgau) for the past few days. As a police spokeswoman said, he phoned his father on the followingnoon of April 30 and told him that he was planning to climb the Hoher Tenn (3,368 meters).
When his father didn’t hear from him until today, he alerted the emergency services. The mountaineer is considered experienced and is well equipped. However, there is still a lot of snow in the Salzburg mountains at the moment. The danger of avalanches should still not be underestimated, as an avalanche accident on Schareck on yesterday’s holiday showed.
