A Peruvian (42) will probably never forget her first day of vacation in Innsbruck. She was optimistic about conquering the Nordkette on foot on Monday before, after a six-hour walk in the dark, she sank in the snow and got into mountain distress. Because she didn’t know the home emergency numbers, she took the SIM card out of her cell phone and dialed the European emergency number.
“We were alerted at 6:30 p.m.,” says Bruno Berloffa, head of the Innsbruck mountain rescue service. The problem: Without a SIM card, there were no coordinates and no telephone contact with the woman. “We only knew that a person had gotten lost in the Seegrube area,” says Berloffa to the “Krone”. “So we alerted the drone team of the Innsbruck professional fire brigade.”Rescuers with a gondola on the NordketteThe Seegrubenbahn was put into operation and brought 16 mountain rescuers and the drone team to the Nordkette. “We managed – also thanks to the drone – to locate the victim quickly. The woman was around 1,800 meters in the Long Valley next to the ski slope,” says Berloffa.Woman was stuck waist-deep in the snowA Ratrac of the Nordkette cable car – hanging on the steel cable – drove down with the mountain rescuers to the Peruvian woman, who was waist-deep, completely soaked and exhausted in the snow stuck. “We took warming measures for the hypothermic woman and brought her to the mountain station in the Ratrac,” says Berloffa. We took the cable car down to Innsbruck, where the charming mountain rescuers even drove the vacationer back to the hotel. Wearing light mountaineering boots “She wasn’t badly equipped,” says Berloffa. “After all, she was wearing light mountaineering boots. During an operation at the weekend under the shoulder head, we had to rescue a person who was walking in the snow with sneakers.” The Peruvian woman probably has rescue insurance. The Innsbruck mountain rescuers should not be left with the costs of the operation.
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