The skiing holiday for a 37-year-old German ended in the hospital on Boxing Day: The winter sports enthusiast was on the Höss in Hinterstoder (Kirchdorf an der Krems district) in the morning when something serious happened on the Hösskogel run at around 9:50 a.m An accident occurred: For reasons that are still unclear, the 37-year-old fell on the slopes, only around 500 meters from the lift station in the Hutterer Boden area.
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He slid a few meters down the valley on the icy ground before lying unconscious on the slope. Witnesses immediately provided first aid and started the rescue chain. When he fell, the man sustained such serious injuries that he had to be resuscitated on the spot by piste rescuers, paramedics and an emergency doctor.
Police are looking for witnesses
After initial treatment, the man, who had suffered serious skull injuries, was taken to the Kepler University Hospital in Linz in the emergency medical helicopter “Christophorus 99,” the police said in the followingnoon. The exact course of the accident was still the subject of investigations on Tuesday. Witnesses are asked to contact the Windischgarsten police station on 059133/4128.
Video footage shows the scene of the accident:
Nine-year-old seriously injured in Obertraun
It was not the only serious accident on Upper Austria’s ski slopes over the Christmas holidays: it was only on Christmas Day that the rescue helicopter was deployed at Krippenstein following a nine-year-old fell on the edge of the slope. The impact on the flat rocky terrain next to the piste was so violent that the ski helmet broke. The German vacationer child was taken to a hospital by helicopter.
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An accident in the Hochoetz ski area in Tyrol ended particularly tragically: a 14-year-old holidaymaker from the Netherlands drove over the edge of the piste and fell regarding 25 meters down a steep embankment. He sustained such serious injuries that he died at the scene of the accident.
Read more here: 14-year-old died in a skiing accident in Tyrol
An accident in the Kitzbühel-Kirchberg ski area ended more lightly. A ten-year-old lost control of her skis and crashed into a tree. A witness provided first aid and started the rescue chain, and the girl was flown to the hospital.
Guys collided on the slopes
The helicopter also had to fly out following an accident in the Carinthian ski area of Heiligenblut am Großglockner. Two boys who were friends collided on a descent and were injured. One of the two was even unconscious following the collision and was flown to the Lienz district hospital by the emergency medical team from the C7 rescue helicopter. His friend escaped with injuries and also had them treated in the hospital, according to the Carinthia State Police Department.
Slope rescue and alpine police also responded to the Ischgl ski area following a 31-year-old German woman got into a steep gully with her skis and didn’t dare go forward or back. The woman was brought back to the slopes, hypothermic and exhausted, but uninjured.
