German and Austrian rescuers found safe and sound 70-year-old German climber who departed August 8 alone on the summit Schrankogel Stubai Alps and fell to 20-foot gap at the height of 3000 meters.
Austrian media say the Bavarian man had only minor injuries, but was suffering from exhaustion and cold after his ordeal on the Schrankogel mountain (Austrian Alps). The man’s cries for help were heard by 3 other German climbers, who then alerted rescuers.
After Austrian mountain rescuers extracted a 70-year-old German man claiming to have been stuck for around a week in a glacier crevasse, police said, calling it incredible that he was still alive.
The 70-year-old German fell through a 20 metre crack in the ice while on a solo climb up Schrankogel, a mountain in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol. Passing climbers heard screams and shouts for help from inside crevasse and called local rescuers to the trapped man.
German climber lay on the mountain-side, wearing a waterproof jacket and some form of scarf tied around his head when the help arrived. The group of 7 rescuers checked the climber at the scene for injury.
Franz Santer, from the mountain rescue team in Gries im Sellrain who coordinated the rescue, has said : ‘ The rescue went well. We got the man out of the crevasse with a rope pulley ‘. He added that the German climber had been resting on a ledge following the fall.
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