3.04. USE ON 28 February sparked TRAUNSTEIN 16:28 GMUNDEN commitment to Germany - People Search at Traunstein Traunstein
In Karsamstagswanderung the fall in Bergnot
A 50-year-old woman and catfish her 14-year-old son fell on Holy Saturday in the late afternoon hours on the mountain emergencies in Traunstein. Just above the so-called Zierlerwände mother and son were not yet back. On Bergetau the police helicopter "bubble" of the flight operation site Linz Gerlinde and Raphael C. were taken from the mountain into the valley.
with insufficient Mountain equipment towards Traunstein
made with a totally inadequate equipment at the mountain in the morning of Holy Saturday Gmunden from the 50-year-old kitchen helper Gerlinde C. and her 14-year-old son Raphael on the way to the green mountain peaks. Middle of the mountain changed their plans and mother and son walked to a forest road in the direction of Traunstein. There, they overcame the so-called Gschliefgraben, on 27 November 2007 began to move and months, millions of gallons of soil above and below ground Traunsee pushed toward the shore.
reached dangerous path taken instead Jägersteig
Gschliefgraben After the two again a forest road and further their goal was the popular hiking route through the wilderness Kaltenbach, on which she again wanted to return to the banks of Lake Traun. However, they missed the marked trail and climbed the hill, on a hunting trail through a steep mountain forest. An almost fatal mistake they did not notice at first.
on all fours towards the summit
part on all fours, they overcame the steep terrain with grass growing through several ditches and ridges before they Zierlerwände above the back and could not. Above the two Welser was still snow, reports a Gmundnerberg savior, so they are on the mountain longer transversely away from the west side and moving more and more arrived on the north side of the Traunstein - far away from the marked increases in Traunstein.
green roof as a guide only after 16.00
clock C. Gerlinde recognized their hopeless situation and called her cell phone emergency number 140 on the Alpine mountain rescue assistance. Their only clue they could give the rescuers was that she could see from a remote location, a green roof of a building yard.
was for Gmundnerberg rescue it at half past five alarm while the police helicopter took off from the flight operation site Linz to flight in the direction of Traunstein. Whether a search with a helicopter is at all possible, was the great unknown, because from the south blew a strong Foehn on Traunsee
At 20 meters long and Bergetau Gerlinde C. Raphael, together with the air rescue of the police helicopter were flown by the dragonfly flight for the Linz Hörsching from the rough terrain of Traunstein in the valley.
Gschliefgraben served as a landing place
For the first time in the history of Gmundnerberg rescue was wrung to the ground Gschliefgraben elected as a helicopter landing pad and this site has proven itself especially well for this application. Finding the woman and her boy was not easy, as the numerous ditches will be fairly widely by region, and the rescuers not expecting that the was able to beat inexperienced mountain woman with her son in this area so far. Above the
Zierlerwände wife and son found
After the search around the Aerie Crag and the lower portion of the decorative coupler has been used unsuccessfully stretched the rescuers to search in the direction Laudachsee and have been find. Above the Zierlerwände the woman crouched with her son in the steep rocky terrain that few meters below the two vertical drops in the obscurities in Bergnot Gschlief.
Given the late hour was required for the rescue ropes and on 20 meters were Bergetau the air rescue of the police helicopter and two rescue Gmundnerberg men were flown to the mountain. Fourteen other Mountain rescuers were ready for a terrestrial recovery in the valley should not fold the recovery from the air.
To be ever flown on Bergetau may have had to rescue the nerves can not take any located wife and also tired son ascend a few feet before they could be hooked into the lifeline of the helicopter. With two flights, then the recovery was complete and Gerlinde C. Raphael and tired but unharmed from the mountain fetched.
police brought to the station Wandersleut
After recording the personal data for the official survey was the adventure for both mother and son ended and the crew of a patrol car brought the two weary of "Under the stone" to Gmunden Central Station. They returned it with this new experience with the train back to Wels. 18:33
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