Traunstein: rope rescue at the limit - saved twice in the same climbers
At nightfall, it was on Sunday evening, the helicopter crew of the Airmed 2 the rescue of two climbers in difficulty from Traunstein Western Wall, one of the largest climbing walls in the eastern Alps. The day before the two climbers had triggered a midnight mountain rescue (we reported).
Extreme Tour "coffee and cake" is the longest climbing routes in the eastern Alps
"coffee and cake" is the name of the 30 pitches, and thus 1500 climbing meters long extreme tour of the Traunstein west wall, on Sunday at 4 clock in the morning of the 38-year-old Nikola D . Kirchschlag from near Linz and Vienna, the 33-year-old Hannah E. participated in attack. The two climbers were well equipped but with the scorching heat and dehydration due to serious problems with the circulation, accompanied by cramps and had to be it also with severe diarrhea bother.
23 pitches were 30
They made for this route is too slow, but still managed 23 pitches this to 8 Severe difficulty climbing. The fitness and experience are likely to have missed the two mountaineers, because 10 years ago, they completed the ascent of the Dachstein south face "their last big ascent and climbing.
roping in the vertical
recognized in the late afternoon, the two mountaineers, the hopelessness of their business and they decided from the 23 Rope length rappel back to the base of the wall. Since the route but has many cross-sections, she missed her by vertical descent, the route and were at the height of the 11th Pitch at an altitude of 880 meters, either before or back.
One of them had a reasonably safe Stand, his climbing partner was hanging 50 feet below him in the middle brackets in the wall and was only on a narrow ledge on the rock. Clock at half past seven in the evening, they agreed with the phone the mountain rescue, for which there were the face of difficult ascents major alarm. Simultaneously, the rescue helicopter "Airmed 2" in crowd stone to the Traunsee bank beordert.Verstopfte Traunsteinstraße and delays
had the rescuers from Gmunden over the total congested and total parking space at Traunstein street in the truest sense of the word to the helicopter landing pad preliminaries at reversing course. The helicopter was from Scharnstein already arrived and had to wait for the rescuers, before the situation with a search flight the two could be located in the wall hanging helplessly climbers.
helicopter rescue at the last second
began at dusk, then the difficult rescue flight, in which the air rescue depended on the 65-meter rope under the helicopter and the centimeter to conduct in the wall was. The pilot succeeded in a relatively short time to control the aircraft so that the bottom oscillating air rescue had contact with the rock and was able to hang the first distressed climbers themselves to the rope. In the meantime, already illuminated the landing area on the banks of Lake Traun with headlights for the approach of the helicopter.
rose to the surprise of rescuers and police activities, including the pilot air rescue again in order to get also the second climbers from the wall. This action then triggers some calls in mountain rescue and police, as the position lights and the white flashing light of the helicopter were many people around the Traunsee interpreted as an Alpine distress signal. With a flying masterpiece and the precision of a well-rehearsed crew finally managed to recover and the second climber and bring it by air to the Traunsee bank back.
The day before night were surprised to find
the rescuers then with the arrival of the two climbers, because they already knew this from day-ahead nightly use. D. and E. were on Saturday after dark to the base of the wall has gone to explore the introduction to the climbing route, and in order to deposit a portion of the equipment.
All this in light of their headlamps, which were interpreted by concerned residents of Traunkirchen and Altmünster as an Alpine distress signal and then unleashed a mountain rescue operation. The rescuers then met after a long look-up to the two climbers who were in the process at the base of the wall, their climbing gear stowed for the next day at issue to be tour.
Internet as a great seducer
the part of the mountain rescue service is made the finding that more and more information about tours and mountain climbers on the web sit here fallacies. Without local knowledge and sometimes without appropriate climbing skills to be addressed, which are far in their difficulty of the skill of the climbers. The length of the routes and the necessary time to climb is often underestimated.
"With the 1,500-meter-long climbing route (30 pitches in extreme terrain beyond the VI. Difficulty) is the route through the Traunstein-west wall of one of the longest climbing routes in the eastern Alps. If an accident is only a very few passages possible in the wall pose to the climbers by helicopter. "says Wolfgang Ebner Gmunden from the mountain rescue.
"Is not it possible to, the rescuers with the steel rope of Traunstein in the wall rappel. And that takes, say the rescuers. If the recovery does not succeed on Sunday evening by helicopter, D. and E. would spend the night in the wall and they were only taken on Monday in a complex terrestrial recovery from the wall. "Said Ebner concluded.
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