"Bordering on a miracle"
Salzburg mountain rescuers speak of “a miracle”
After a complex rescue operation, everything turned out well for two US-Americans in Salzburg on Sunday. The duo had gotten into mountain trouble while mushroom picking, one man almost fell.
According to the mountain rescue service, the two Americans got lost in the area of the Napfetzer at over 1500 meters above sea level in the south of the Steinernes Meer in extremely steep, rocky and sometimes vertically sloping grass and tree terrain.
A 68-year-old slipped, fell and luckily got caught in a tree directly above a vertically sloping rock face.
Help arrived by rescue helicopter. Two mountain rescuers abseiled down around 40 meters and found the injured man.
"He was crouching by a tree, under a steep step. Right in front of a vertical rock face. The fact that he came to a standstill there is nothing short of a miracle," explained head of operations Bernd Tritscher from Saalfelden Mountain Rescue.
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