Using the example of royal yodel: domestic via ferratas are often doomed tourists

The recovery of tourists from the royal yodel in the Hochkönig massif or the Birgkar used there for relegation is sad routine for savior.In general, it is mostly Eastern Europeans who underestimated the domestic via ferrata.

The SN reported: Twice - Friday evening and Sunday afternoon - Mühlbacher mountain rescuers had to deploy in order to get poorly equipped, local -unkt and hopelessly overestimating "mountain athletes" from the Hochkönig -Massiv.Specifically, four Poles, although only in sports shoes (!), Wanted the very exhausting and difficult royal iodler via ferrata."It is almost unbelievable that they got up at all.But then they did not go over to the matrashaus, but relegated the Birgkar in the evening - and that was fatal, "says Thomas Knöpfler (36), local manager of the Mühlbach mountain rescue:" In the steep, treacherous Birgkar is still a lot of snow this year.At eleven o'clock at night they could no longer continue and alerted us.We then moved out with seven men."The four Poles had no crampons and pimples with them.One had also slipped and injured himself.

As soon as this assignment was digested, nine Mühlbach rescuers had to save a Dutch (50) and his nine -year -old daughter from Birgkar on Sunday.The man had also climbed with the child in the extremely long (1700 vertical meters) king's yodel and then in the rain via an emergency exit into the said Kar - even without climbing aid.The volunteer rescuers also got this duo safely into the valley."Actually, they are almost always people from Eastern Europe who have to get out of the royal iodler via ferrata or the Kar: Czech, Poland or Hungary," says Knöpfler.Nache: "In 2018 alone, we had to recover people in need on six missions in need.Most of them were Eastern European.Overall, there have always been tourists who unfortunately overestimate themselves."

Local point manager Knöpfler and also Balthasar Laireiter, head of the Salzburg mountain rescue, emphasize that the many Eastern Europeans and tourists from other countries who wanted to conquer the often difficult domestic via ferrata are ".But unfortunately they often have no climbing knowledge and overestimate each other."Knöpfler added," that these people are often only there for a few days.And then they want to go through that.Then the selective tour is not really planned sufficiently.Or climbing when the weather does not fit or without paying attention to the weather forecast."

The four Poles now receive an invoice of around 2200 euros in operating costs from the mountain rescue;Likewise the man from Holland - here they are 1800 to 2000 euros.According to Knöpfler, all saved ones are likely to be insured.Head of mountain rescue leader Laireiter emphasizes that fortunately only around five percent of the salvage costs have to be "written off": "In 2017 we have the nationwide mountain athletes 368.000 costs offset.Only 14.000 euros of it are indelible."

Called on 12.02.2022 at 08:36 on https: // www.sn.At/Salzburg/Chronicle/AM-Example-Koenigsjodler-Heimische-Krettersteige-Werden-Touristen-Fmals-Zum-Verhaengnis-74150524