in Spite of poor weather forecasts, had issued five athletes on the boiler, and the mountains to Canyoning. The little rear Creek swelled to a raging river.

Five athletes were broken up in spite of poor weather forecasts on the boiler, and the mountains to Canyoning. The group was stuck finally, in the rear of the Bach between Walchensee and Kochelsee. The rescue operation was for the forces to risk.

Kochel am see – A large contingent of rescue workers on Wednesday evening (10. June) at the boiler : A five members of the Canyoning group hung in the rear-Bach between Walchensee and Kochelsee fixed. According to the alert, the danger is that people drown in levels during heavy rainfall and rapidly rising Water. To rescue them from their plight, meant for the volunteers of mountain rescue, fire brigades and water rescue a lavish use was also associated for them with considerable risk. After a good two and a half hours, at around 22.30, there were to report a happy ending.

According to police there were three men and two women between the ages of 30 and 42 years, all from Nuremberg, the cases on Wednesday afternoon to the Canyoning, , so by climbing the rear Creek canyon with its water, had opened the door. The bad weather forecast had not deterred the excursionists apparently. Against 19.50 at the group, which was by then apparently been around for a while in the gorge went off, a distress call. Meanwhile, heavy rain had set in.

firefighters tried to reach the Canyoning group on the boiler mountain via rotating head

The mountain rescue Kochel, the guardian of fire Kochel, the Berg-special operations group Canyoning with forces from Lenggries, Grainau, Ohlstadt, Oberau, Bad Tölz, Krün and Wallgau and BRK, and the police came from. Alone of the mountain rescue service and the fire brigade were around 55 forces on the ground.

Because of the location of the Canyonisten in steep, rugged terrain, especially in wet conditions and the onset of dawn – extremely hard-to-reach was, followed the Saviour in addition, a different approach to reach them.

From the top gorge bridge to the boiler mountain road from the fire Department Kochel went on their turntable ladder in the Horizontal. From there, the Plan should abseiling a helper for 30 yards to the stuck. "Unfortunately, it has turned out that our head was two meters too short," reports fire brigade-commander Hubert Resenberger . Therefore, amplification of the Feuerwehr Murnau was requested, the slightly longer ladder would be enough to extend far enough above the abyss. In addition, you asked the car crane, the comrades from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which was not needed in the end.

Bad Tölz: Canyoning in Need: heavy rain the rear of Bach makes swell

in Parallel, the helper of the mountain to went Wake up to, despite the adverse conditions, yet over the steep, rocky slope by ropes. "It rained cats and dogs, and you can see the water in the rear Bach is increasing steadily," says the Kochler mayor Thomas wood, who wakes up as a mount member with on-the-spot was.

in The end, it was pulled a Person from the Nuremberg group on the ladder to the top, the other four, the mountain would Wake up through the grounds to a safe position, and accompanied them from there to the bottom of the gorge bridge. All the five persons were handed over without any apparent injuries to the ambulance.

you have been on an outpatient basis provides. Including a final meeting and supply of the forces in the rescue station of the mountain Kochel wakes up took the insert according to Geiger's information until midnight.

In the gorge at kettle mountain, it was once the first fatal Canyoning accident in Germany

"the Highest respect" pays tribute to Thomas wood for all involved helpers. It was "a Look", how professional the volunteers coped with the explosive use of and how smoothly all of the rescue organizations "Hand in Hand" together would have worked. Only two years ago, a rescue advance had been practiced at exactly this point – how well turned out, wise.

B 11 about the kettle mountain was locked during use, a good two hours. The traffic back-up wide.

The tail Creek gorge was not for the first Time, the scene of emergencies of Canyonisten. In July 1997 there was the first Canyoning-dead of Germany. In August 2003, freed a large number of rescuers in the same place twelve recreational athletes.

to become The high-water of the Loisach is a Murnauer (37) a fatal doom. The man fell with his cross-machine and drowned.

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Date Of Update: 11 June 2020, 16:34