Overview
- The slide struck around 3:50 p.m. Saturday below the 3,545-meter peak as two German parties were ascending the north face.
- Rescuers described a wind-drifted slab breaking on hard ice near 3,200 meters, burying a three-person team that was recovered dead soon after excavation.
- A second group of four included two survivors evacuated by helicopter, while two others remain unaccounted for with no identities or ages released.
- Multi-agency teams deployed the Sulden mountain rescue, volunteer firefighters, finance police mountain units, drones, and the Pelikan 1 and Pelikan 3 emergency helicopters.
- The search was suspended shortly after 7 p.m. and is scheduled to resume Sunday on a mountain that also saw a fatal avalanche about a year earlier.