A pair of Czech climbers called for rescue workers below the summit of Grossglockner in the Austrian Tyrol after being caught in a sudden weather deterioration while ascending the Stüdlgrat ridge. A 32-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman spent the night of July 5-6 in an emergency bivouac at an altitude of about 3,700 meters.

On Monday morning around 7:45 a.m., a man called the emergency hotline from his cell phone. Due to strong winds and snowfall, a helicopter could not land directly at the scene, so two members of the mountain rescue service from Kals am Großglockner climbed up to the exhausted climbers. After warming them up and providing basic first aid, the two accompanied the climbers down the normal route to the Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte (Adlersruhe) mountain hut.

Six members of the Kals am Großglockner Mountain Rescue Service, a police mountain specialist, and the Austrian police helicopter Libelle Tirol were deployed for the rescue operation.

Source:

www.polizei.gv.at: Alpine Emergency on the Großglockner


Großglockner with a view of the Stüdlgrat ridge
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