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The group was unable to advance further down the Ingolstadt home due to fresh snow. The police helicopter took her to an alpine meadow and from there to the valley the mountain rescuers took her. The hikers were unharmed. According to the mountain rescue service, they had underestimated the cold front hip ride.
The group wanted to go down the normal route in the direction of the Dießbach reservoir to Weißbach bei Lofer. Between 200 and 300 meters of altitude below the Ingolstadt house, which stands at an altitude of 2,119 meters, they were trapped in the fresh snow that fell over the weekend. The hikers alerted the emergency services around 10:30 am and waited for help at a pillar of the material cable car.
The helicopter carried mountain rescuer Markus Reichholf, chief of operations and head of the local Saalfelden-Maria Alm office, and an Alpine police officer to the Ingolstadt home. From there, the two went down to join the group in difficulty and set up a makeshift landing strip for the helicopter a safe distance from the cable car. The hikers were then airlifted to Kallbrunnalm. Eight mountain rescuers were already waiting there and led the hikers into the valley.
Reichholf calls in this context to pay attention to the weather report and altitude before starting a tour. The cold front was announced a few days ago. “Even if only a few inches of snow are announced, piles of snow two to three meters high can emerge in the mountains.” The snowfall ended Sunday and the weather was relatively pleasant again, but the roads at the higher elevations were covered in snow.
