The state of the enclosed 1000 meters deep cave explorer is obviously better than feared. The 52-year-old is permanently accessible according to Mountain Rescue. He shall be brought up to the end of the week in five stages to the top.

The state of the cave researcher who is injured since Sunday in a cave in the Berchtesgaden Alps is well thought better than first. The 52-year-old Stuttgart is durable responsive and able to stand a short time, said a spokesman for the Mountain Rescue Chiemgau. Previously, the aid workers had assumed that the man could only be transported lying.

The injured will now be saved until the end of the week. According to Mountain Rescue go the helpers of about three to five days of the action. The man shall be brought in stages to the bivouac five stations that are set up in the huge thing-vertical cave on the way up.

On the night of Tuesday, the first helper teams out of the cave had returned, while they provided further information on the condition of the injured person. Accordingly, he suffered a bleeding head injury in a rockfall. A team of experts from Switzerland, the big thing in the bay cave is on the road since Monday night, should arrive in the next few hours at the man.

The caver was in the deepest and longest cave in Germany have been on the night of Sunday with two companions around a thousand meters below the surface on the road when the accident happened.