Rope rescue
Alpinist fell over 15 meter high rock face
A female climber from the Czech Republic was seriously injured after an accident in the area of the Rotschitza waterfall below a 15-metre-high rock face. The fall site could only have been reached on foot. A rescue team was therefore lowered from the helicopter using a cable winch.
On Monday in the early afternoon, a 49-year-old Czech citizen was on a via ferrata in the Rotschitza gorge south of the Baumgartnerhöhe, on a crossing between two hiking trails in the area of the Rotschitza waterfall, with her husband and their eight-year-old child. Suddenly, she free-fell over an approximately 15-metre-high rock face and then slid down a sloping forest floor some 120 meters into the depths.
The alpinist was seriously injured - to her head, arms and legs. Her husband alerted the emergency services.
As the crash site could only be reached on foot, an emergency doctor and a paramedic from the RK1 rescue helicopter were winched down to the injured woman. Together with the mountain rescue emergency doctor, the 49-year-old was given first aid.
The seriously injured woman was brought back to the forest path by the Villach mountain rescue team using a Tyromont carrying system and an approximately 80-metre-long rope pulley. There, the helicopter was finally able to pick up the injured person using a winch and take her to Villach Regional Hospital.
In addition to Faak am See police officers, nine mountain rescuers were also deployed.
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