Panic in the Snow: German Underestimated Mountain Tour

In a spectacular rescue operation from the air, four women and a man from Germany were rescued from the rock walls of the Wilder Kaiser in Tyrol on Saturday evening. The women were in an exceptional psychological situation. They all come from nearby Bavaria – that currently lies in the Wilder Kaiser (Kufstein district) from 1600 meters of new snow, but had probably not penetrated to them. The tour from the Kaiserbach valley over the Gruttenhütte…

A four-member hiking group from Germany was rescued on Saturday in the Kaisergebirge from Bergnot. A snow field at over 2,100 meters had surprised them.

A rescue operation took place on Saturday, 24 May 2025, at the Oberen Scharlingerboden in the Tiroler Bezirk Kufstein. A helicopter crew took a German group of holidaymakers from the mountain. The four-member group from Germany set off on a tour on Saturday morning in the Tyrolean community of Ellmau. This led them first towards Ellmauer Tor. "From there they then descended on the south side of the Wilder Kaiser to the Gruttenhütte, in order to …