An Italian holidaymaker in the farthest Zillertal had to fear for his life: he was snowboarding away from the secured pistes when suddenly it suddenly went downhill – a crevasse. Luckily there were witnesses to the incident and they immediately alerted the emergency services. . .
The accident happened on Saturday, but only became known on Monday: The 42-year-old Italian was traveling with a colleague in the Hintertux Glacier ski area. At around 2 p.m. the two of them were riding their snowboards in the open, glaciated terrain. The athlete in front may have missed a crevasse and subsequently fell into it with his snowboard. He got stuck upside down at a depth of around ten meters.Two helicopters in action. Uninvolved eyewitnesses then made an emergency call. The Tux mountain rescue service, which was then alerted, was flown to the scene of the accident with the Alpin 5 emergency medical helicopter and the Libelle Tirol police helicopter and then carried out the crevasse rescue. Practiced hundreds of times, but given the depth in which the Italian was stuck, it was anything but child’s play. After being rescued from the Alpin 5, the holidaymaker was flown to the Innsbruck clinic with significant injuries.
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