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In Upper Austria, the mountain rescue team on Friday recovered three Chinese tourists in a via ferrata. The trio was only in sport sandals and without via ferrata equipment
10:53, 28 July 2018
The Mountain Rescue recovered Friday three Chinese tourists from Echernwand via ferrata to Hallstatt. The trio – a father with a 27-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son – traveled without via ferrata equipment and wore sports sandals only. A Czech mountaineer became aware of the tourists half way and informed his wife in the valley.
The woman turned to the funiculars to the salt mines, which in turn alerted the mountain rescue service. Eight men left immediately after. They found the tourists in the so – called panoramic scale and provided the three missing equipment. The scared father and son were roped at the entrance of the via ferrata. The girl could be accompanied by the second part of the rescue team until the exit.
"Would have continued"
"Without the intervention of the Czechs, the three could have advanced, but the climb is more difficult up to category D, and overlooking," Dieter Eder Ortsstellenleiter of the Mountain Rescue Hallstatt, Saturday at the APA. It was also irritating that the father, after the successful recovery, proudly reported that he had arrived halfway up the climb. "That brought him then, but a timbale standing by a policeman," Eder said.
Not an isolated case
This was not an individual case in use, but did not act. "One or two years ago we already saved a Dutch holidaymaker in sandals." At this point, the man probably did not read the information panel at the entrance and ventured so far into the via ferrata that he was unable to to move forward or backward
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