Two Czech hikers got lost on the Schafberg near St. Gilgen on Monday. When it got dark and they ended up in a steep ditch with water, they alerted the mountain rescue team. She was able to bring them safely to the valley in an hour-long operation.
Two Czechs started their hike in St. Wolfgang on Monday afternoon, which took them to the 1,782 meter high Schafberg. While descending the north side of the mountain, the 29-year-old man and the 32-year-old woman got lost: Christian Rauter, head of operations at the St. Gilgen mountain rescue service, describes the operation: “They landed in a steep and water-bearing ditch, were exhausted and couldn’t more on.”After the emergency call was received around 7 p.m., nine mountain rescuers from St. Gilgen set off to find the hikers. After two hours they reached the Czechs, secured them with ropes and descended with them over the difficult terrain. “We tried to reach them in two teams from above and from below, which we managed to do at around 9 p.m. The woman in particular was extremely exhausted. We climbed up into the ditch with them. “We had to install some safety ropes and use them to overcome a good 400 meters in altitude with some difficult crossings in impassable terrain,” says Rauter, explaining the rescue operation. It wasn’t until around two o’clock in the morning that the Czech holidaymakers were brought into the valley unharmed but exhausted.
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