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On Sunday night, rescuers had to interrupt the search for the victim due to darkness and dangerous conditions. On Monday, the 23-year-old could only be found dead.
1:54 pm, October 19, 2020
One Freerider, which on Sunday in the Kitzsteinhorn ski area in a strait and sometimes more than 40 meter deep edge crack had fallen, he could only be recovered dead on Monday. Of the 23 years old from the Pinzgau probably already died from the consequences of the accident, said the mountain rescue With. After the search for the man was interrupted yesterday evening, today he was found on a branch under a layer of snow.
The young skier was at about 2,700 meters above sea level on Sunday around 1 pm Schmiedingerkees crashed into the crack. You must have missed the roughly 100 meter long rim gap. It was open, but hidden behind a dome. The freerider colleagues alerted them immediately. Emergency services. A mountain rescuer who was privately on a skiing excursion in the area has already been a little later rappelling into the crevasse.
However, the man was only able to see parts of the equipment. Furthermore, the length of the rope was initially insufficient to allow it to descend deeper into the abyss of the twisted and branched edge. With a Berger column device, a tripod that is placed over space, it was later possible to penetrate to a depth of about 40 meters.
He fell very deep into the narrow crevice, the field was not long enough to reach him.
Operations Manager Harald Etzer
The mountain rescuers oriented themselves on the tracks of the fall and suspected that the man was under a large amount of fallen snow. “Sometimes the gap was only 40 to 50 centimeters wide,” Raimund Schiffer of the Kaprun mountain rescue service told the APA. “We have in very difficult conditions So the snow had to be scooped out of the crevice in a backpack and thrown up. Over and over, the snow threatened to fall from above on the rescuers in the crevasse.
Sunday night the search for the victim was due to darkness and the broke dangerous conditions. Mountain rescuers from Salzburg and Tyrol resumed work Monday morning, digging a total of five meters deep. In the morning, a mountain rescuer saw more evidence of the young man at a depth of about 20 meters. Through a Steam probe rescuers could quickly advance on the victim and scoop him out. It had landed on a side slit that was full of snow. The victim was recovered and transported to the valley in a police helicopter.
In use it kept well 20 mountain rescuers from Salzburg and Tyrol, three alpine policemen, a police helicopter and the track service of the mountain railways. The accident occurred along a designated descent route, which is currently closed due to lack of snow.
