Wanderer crashed 300 meters from his death

The hiker crashed at 300 meters

PREGARTEN. A 55-year-old German crashed on Prägraten in Osttirol on Friday about 300 meters above a steep and rocky terrain and crashed deadly.

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The man should have slipped a wet climb, the police said. The helicopter ambulance could determine that the death of the 55-year-old athlete

The German had made a hike on the Alpenkönigweg in the direction from Essener Rostocker Hütte when he slipped to 13 o'clock and then crashed several times. Companions of the man quickly alerted the rescuers, but any help came too late for him. The 55-year-old man was rescued with the police helicopter with the support of mountain rescue.

crashed on the Kitzsteinhorn

A 39-year-old mountaineer was seriously injured in a crash Friday at the Kitzsteinhorn (Pinzgau). The man fell on the descent above the "Füthermoaralm" about 15 meters in depth and remained motionless in a stream bed. His two companions took him out of the water and alerted the rescue teams, reporting police and relief in press releases.

"He was seriously injured and we knew that only a rescue by helicopter would save his life" Mountain Rescuer, Thomas Etzer, the situation. The 39-year-old man slipped on steep slopes under the Kammerscharte along the creek and crashed on the trail exposed at about 2,400 meters

. Due to rain and fog, a helicopter mission was impossible. Eight mountain rescuers leave on foot with an ambulance for the seriously wounded. It took about an hour for the rescue team to get up. A small weather window was used by the team at the Alpin Heli 6 and brought the German by the dew from the mountain. The man was transported to the hospital Zell am See

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