Overview
- Friends reported the 57-year-old missing on Sunday morning after he was last seen around 10 p.m. on Saturday.
- Police searched with the helicopter Libelle as about 20 mountain rescuers launched a sector search starting around 12:15 p.m.
- Rescuers found him around 2 p.m. lying in the snow at the edge of the Gasteiner Ache before the first steep steps of the upper waterfall.
- Authorities classify the site as in-town but alpine due to steep slopes and proximity to water.
- Overnight lows near minus 14 degrees Celsius were reported, and rescuers say the man likely froze to death on a day that brought seven alerts for the Pongau mountain rescue.