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The 34-year-old from Lower Austria, who was reportedly abandoned by his parents on Thursday, was found dead in a canal on the Naturfreundesteig on Friday. Several teams from the mountain rescue team and police helicopters had been searching for the climber.
The location of a cell phone eventually led emergency services to the crash site about 1000 meters above sea level. “The crash site is very difficult to see. There is a steep ladder there, it should have fallen there,” says Bernhard Ebner, head of the Gmunden mountain rescue service. The wounded man had already climbed the Traunstein several times and was well equipped.
The experienced mountaineer died on the Naturfreundesteig.
Image: Matthias Lauber
Relatives only found one car
On Thursday morning, the 34-year-old left his hometown in Lower Austria for Gmunden to climb the Hernlersteig to the 1691-meter-high summit. I wanted to go back on the path of friends of nature. Since he did not return home that night, his family headed to Gmunden, where they only found the 34-year-old car.
Twenty mountain rescuers came out at 9 p.m. and searched for the missing person with a thermal imaging camera until 1 a.m. The search continued the next morning. Six mountain rescue teams, the alpine police and police helicopters were in action.
The pictures show the work on the Traunstein:
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Photo Gallery: Fatal Accident: Deployment on the Traunstein
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