2023-07-11 08:41:29
Large rescue operation in the Salzburg area of the Glockner area: a so-called gliding snowfall blocked the way for a group of ten mountaineers. Luck prevented a catastrophe.
On Monday at around six o’clock, a group of ten mountaineers from Bavaria left the Heinrich-Schwaiger-Haus for a day trip to the 3564 meter high summit of the Wiesbachhorn in the Glockner group, which they reached at around ten o’clock.
The subsequent planned descent led the alpinists between the ages of 41 and 61 over the Vorderen Bratschenkopf and the alpine, exposed climb of the Bratschen in the direction of the Schwarzenberghütte (2257 meters). When the well-equipped mountaineers were descending at around 3:00 p.m. at an altitude of 2,423 meters (i.e. in the lower third of the viola), a gliding snowfall suddenly occurred to the side above them.
This break, which was several hundred meters high, blocked the descent through the inclined and exposed rock slabs for the German vacationers. The uninjured climbers made an emergency call.
The crew of the police helicopter carried out the rope rescue together with an alpine policeman from Zell am See. The investigations of the alpine police showed that the tour group was very lucky with this event. If the mighty masses of snow and ice had detached just a short time later, the group would have stood in the fall line of the masses – and probably been torn down.
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