The younger man had already climbed the 1,691 m excessive Traunstein a number of instances and took a special route every time. He was already capable of tick off Hochkamp, O-Grat, Hernler, Mairalm and Naturfreundesteig, however he did not but know the unmarked Zierlersteig. He set out to do that on Saturday when he started the climb round 5 a.m.
The Zierlersteig is an alpine path with medium-difficulty, quick climbing sections. Since there are not any markings, solely path tracks or particular person stone mandls, the route is just appropriate for knowledgeable mountaineers with good orientation abilities.
At round 1,500 m above sea degree, the 26-year-old got here off the path and landed on steep, rocky terrain the place he may neither go ahead nor again. He subsequently made the emergency name at 9:20 a.m. and transmitted the coordinates of his location.
The Alpine police notified the Higher Austria police helicopter and the Gmunden mountain rescue service, which was standing by within the valley whereas the helicopter was capable of find the hiker at round 10:20 a.m.
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The alpinist was rescued with a 40 m lengthy, variable rope and brought to the Laudachsee intermediate touchdown website after which to the “unterm Stein” touchdown website.
