A 68-year-old slipped while hiking on the Miesweg – a narrow, partly rope-secured path that leads directly along the eastern shore of Lake Traunsee. Immediately after getting in, he turned to his wife to take a picture of her with his smartphone. He climbed next to the secured path and fell about ten meters almost in free fall in the about six degree cold water of the Traunsee.
Other hikers alerted the rescue workers. When the water rescue boat arrived at the scene of the accident, the man had already saved himself to a plateau on the bank and was waiting for help there. He was taken to the turning point by boat and handed over to the rescue services there. The ambulance took him to the hospital in Gmunden for further treatment.
It wasn’t the only mission this weekend in the Traunstein area. The mountain rescuers did not move out until Friday evening after a woman had fallen about 50 meters into steep terrain on the Kleiner Schönberg:
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Wanderer fell over 50 meters on the Kleiner Schönberg
