Not the often underestimated difficulty, but falling rocks were a climber’s undoing on Sunday morning in the Attersee via ferrata on the 1261 meter high Mahdlgupf: The 39-year-old from the Salzburg-Land district was with a 36-year-old from the Hallein district at around ten o’clock climbed the via ferrata in Steinbach am Attersee, rated D/E “very difficult”.
When he was about a third of the way down, the man heard a stone fall from above and, quick-witted, turned sideways. However, the stone, which police said was about the size of a head, hit him in the hip with full force. Despite the injury, he still managed to climb over the second crux of the wall.
In the lighter area, however, the pain became too severe. The couple called emergency services. The 39-year-old and his girlfriend were rescued by the emergency helicopter using a rope, the police said in the evening. The injured man went to a hospital on his own.
Multiple assignments over the weekend
It wasn’t the only alpine mission at the weekend. The helicopter was also used on the Schafberg on Sunday after a German holidaymaker slipped on the Purtschellersteig and was seriously injured:
On Friday, two Czechs failed on one of the most difficult via ferratas in the Eastern Alps: They got no further on the Seewand in Hallstatt and had to be rescued by helicopter after they got out of the wall and got into impassable terrain:
Source: Nachrichten
