2024-03-09 18:15:06
Three German alpinists – a 25-year-old woman and two men aged 24 and 25 – got lost on Friday in the Großvenediger area on the East Tyrolean side in bad weather and fog, triggering a search that lasted overnight.
The three were finally found by mountain rescuers on Saturday morning at 3,150 meters above sea level. They had set up an emergency bivouac. The Germans were exhausted but remained unhurt, police said.
The young tourers were finally accompanied by rescue workers to the Johanneshütte and then flown by emergency helicopter to the Prägraten mountain rescue base in East Tyrol, it was said. They were previously found in the area of the “upper entrance” to Rainerkees.
The Germans had already had a long “odyssey” behind them. On Friday morning they wanted to climb from the Kürsingerhütte to the summit of the Großvenediger on the Salzburg side and then descend back towards the Kürsingerhütte. They got off the route and headed towards Gschlösstal, below the Prager Hütte.
Despite the bad weather, they then climbed towards the Venedigerscharte. After the alpinists did not return to the hut as planned at 7 p.m., the search operation was finally initiated. Emergency services from the Prägraten mountain rescue service and the Alpine police climbed from Hinterbichl towards the Johannishütte, while those from the Neukirchen mountain rescue service climbed from the Salzburg side towards the Kürsingerhütte.
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