EVENING SUCH ACTION ON TRAUNSTEIN 04/03/2011 EVENING SUCH ACTION ON TRAUNSTEIN
For abbreviation in-law missed - Mountain rescue operation began at dusk
At nightfall yesterday shortly after 17 clock 20 mountain rescuers and the crews of two police helicopters for a look at the outlets to Traunstein. An hour after the search operation rescuers arrived on the downslope located outlets. He had taken a short cut and therefore not his brother accompanying him met at the agreed meeting point.
clock at 14:30 and began the 37-year old bank employee Ernst Z. and his contemporary architect Gerhard Sch. - Both from Neukirchen in Lambach - the rise of the Friends of Nature Trail. Since Z. better condition had agreed to exhibit two climbers, meet at the Nature Friends House to the top of the Traunstein. Z. reached after about an hour the Traunstein plateau and rose even further to the summit. On his return to the hut he found, however - so as agreed upon - his comrade Berg at the agreed meeting point. Z. then rose again on the friends of nature trail in the valley and said, meet his brother-in somewhere down the dip. This was not the case and because he Sch. even when on the road Traunstein parked car did not find, Z. alerted at 17:10 on the clock emergency call 140, the Alpine Gmundnerberg rescue.
within 15 minutes met 20 mountain rescuers used and of the flight for the Linz police helicopter was summoned to Traunsee. In a search flight was not made out of school leavers, so decided just before dark, the operational commander to fly three flights to the Traunstein mountain rescuers, so that they search from the top down the road. In addition, the part of police activities in Salzburg requested a second helicopter, equipped for night vision for and with a thermal imaging camera. Simultaneous rose rescuers in several groups from the valley up the mountain and after a considerable time the rescuers arrived on the descent located mountaineers. In view of the helicopter flights that already had a premonition, and his first words were: "ye seek me," stated
As of the graduates, he was about 800 meters above sea level followed a path up the mountain, which, as the rescuers, but only when taken down like a short cut. Through his chosen path of builder lost valuable time during the ascent and he did not manage to be at the time agreed to the Joint Meeting at Traunstein. Since he is only in the uppermost part of the Traunstein fought back on the marked path, he missed his brother-seekers already after him. Sch. Rose for the nature lovers house, stayed there briefly and took a few minutes later on the descent, where he Wegdrittel lower then the searching for him rescuers met. The
be flown to the Traunstein rescuers were on the crew of a police helicopter also brought from the mountain, so that they remained a nocturnal descent saves in the upper third of the partially frozen dough. It was so dark, so it took the landing site in the valley by car headlights to be illuminated for helicopter landings. Relief for the rescuers and the two climbers who could compete for the necessary police questioning their home
