Climber Rescued After Being Abandoned at 2,600 Metres in Austrian Alps
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A 20-year-old German climber was rescued over the weekend in the Austrian Alps after being left behind by his two companions during a mountain climb in difficult weather conditions. According to the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service, the young man was found at an altitude of about 2,600 meters above sea level, after a rescue operation that lasted 14 hours, Telegrafi reports. The three German climbers had set off on the Königsjodler trail in the H…
The director of the Pongau Mountain Rescue Service said the man probably would not have survived another night on the mountain due to the weather conditions. The post Austria: 20-year-old climber abandoned in the Alps – Dramatic rescue operation in the snowstorm appeared first on in.gr.
In a DRAMATIC 14-hour operation, a young German was rescued after his friends left him at 2,600 meters in the Austrian Alps in the middle of a snowstorm.
The young man was exhausted and suffering from hypothermia - His two companions left him behind, despite the extreme weather conditions - It took more than 13 hours for rescuers to return with the 20-year-old
After 14 hours, rescuers in the Hochkönig massif rescue an exhausted, undercooled 20-year-old from a challenging via ferrata. Previously, he and his companions had ignored the bad weather forecast and the warning of another climber.
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