Mountain Tour Was Too Much: Poland Saved by Helicopter

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The two men and two women didn't know how difficult their planned route was – and couldn't go on exhausted. Around noon, the four Poles had started in Maria Alm. They wanted to climb the southern ascent to the 2504-metre-high Breithorn in the Steinernen Meer – a marked tour, which is marked in all maps, as the mountain rescue points point out. Nevertheless, parts of the tour have the difficulty level three. And in one of these challenging places…

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Four Polish hikers had to be rescued on Thursday evening, July 9, 2026, from the Steinernen Meer in the Pinzgau. They did not continue at a difficult point and dropped the emergency call. Thursday afternoon, July 9, 2026, four Polish climbers from Maria Alm (Pinzgau, Salzburg) wanted to climb up to the Breithorn (2,504 meters above sea level). Although the tour is marked and marked in all maps, it leads "over exposed terrain with some places tha…