The accident happened on the northern side of Sněžka. Ivo Novák, the spokesman for the emergency services of the Hradec Králové Region, told Novinkám that two people suffered life-threatening injuries when they fell in the icy terrain.
The Czech Mountain Service stated that it received a report of several people falling from Sněžka on the Polish side into the Lomniczki boiler from a Polish tourist around 2 p.m. According to the witness, the tourists should have fallen about halfway from the top towards the Silesian House.
“A group of six rescuers from Pec pod Sněžkou and the Polish mountain service GOPR immediately set out to help the injured. Three helicopters of the rescue service also went to the saddle under Sněžka,” described the mountain rescuers on a social network with the fact that there were two machines from the Czech side and one from Poland.
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Rescue operation in the vicinity of Sněžka
A tourist fell from the Krkonoše ridge into a stream, a helicopter had to help
“After a few minutes of searching, mountain rescuers found two bodies, unfortunately without signs of life. According to the first information from the scene of the attack, they were Polish tourists. One of them slipped off the top and stopped approx. 250 m below Jubilee Road. Rescuers only discovered the body of the second tourist at the bottom of the valley,” they added.
They didn’t find anyone else
The victims should be two men, the spokesperson of the police in Jelenia Góra confirmed on TVN24 the information of the Czech hotline that they came from Poland.
Rescuers searched the so-called death chute through which the men fell into the evening, but found no one else and ended the search, the Wrocław edition of Gazeta Wyborcza reported, citing the Polish mountain service.
The head of the Polish Mountain Service, Adam Tkocz, told Gazeta Wyborcza that the third person initially mentioned by witnesses was probably not on the slope. People apparently mistook the falling backpack for a person.
This winter is the first victims of the highest Czech mountains. The warning against icy terrain has been valid in the Krkonoše Mountains for the past few days.