A hiker from the area of Fürth wanted to stay in the Berchtesgaden Alps, to a hut and made a fatal mistake. The emergency doctor could only ascertain his death.

Within four days, this was the third deployment for the rescue forces in the cobbler route on the Hoher Göll in the Berchtesgadener Land . This time with a fatal outcome. A Walker wanted to avoid a snow field.

Berchtesgaden - On Tuesday afternoon, (2. June), against 14.40 p.m., two hikers placed an emergency call because they had seen, as in the descent over the cobbler route a Person was crashed. The police headquarters in upper Bavaria South reported.

mountaineer shock scene in the Berchtesgaden Alps

The crash site is located only a few meters above the purtscheller house of about 1800 meters in altitude.

Berchtesgaden: 57-Year-old from the area of Fürth alone in the mountains

A 57-year-old man from the area of Fürth, was broken up in the Morning alone from the Ofnerboden to the roßfeld road to go to the eagle's nest, Mannlgrat to the High Göll.

Wanderer decides the descent direction of the purtscheller house

At the end of the Mannlgrates to about 2250 meters of altitude, he decided to climb to the summit, but about the shoemaker down the route in the direction of the purtscheller house to go.

And launched a fatal chain of events. The mountain rescue service Berchtesgaden knows this descent, especially this time of year. Already in the last days there were several missions to the cobbler route.

Deadly accident in the mountains in the Berchtesgaden Alps: Fatal descent over snow-North side

The Problem: The descent is on the North side of the mountain. There is a lot of snow still. The man pulled his so-called light crampons might, smaller crampons to prevent Slipping on the smooth railing. Then he went in the direction of the purtscheller house.

Almost had managed to get the man out of the room, Fürth. After the had already mastered the greater part of the descent, he wanted to handle the last snow field. This turned out to be a fatal mistake.

In the process, he slipped and fell about 80 meters above the rock mottled terrain.

observer to descend to him and provide first aid in vain

On 1750 meters of altitude, he came to Lie. The two witnesses who had seen the crash, put a distress call from the us site rose to the Casualty on dangerous steep descent.

Deadly crash in the Alps: ambulance only death can find

the state of The first addressable husband deteriorated rapidly, so that in spite of carried out resuscitation measures the incoming ambulance of the Austrian rescue helicopter C6 Salzburg, only death could see.

demanding salvage of the Crashed was guard by two police mountain guide and two mountain wachtler of the mountain of Berchtesgaden, in cooperation with the police helicopter carried out.

The further investigation of the crash will be led by a police mountain guide from the PI Berchtesgaden.

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read all what Bayern is moving in our Bavaria portfolio*, and a brand-new Nuremberg-Department*. In the past few days, there have been several mountain-rescue operations in the Region Berchtesgaden - often because hikers appreciated the snow situation.

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Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 13:35