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Rescuers Airlift Seriously Injured Hiker From Weißbach Gorge After Four-Hour Search

Witness reports enabled crews to hoist her through dense forest from a steep face.

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Overview

  • The woman called emergency services around 11:00, but initial aerial searches failed because dense vegetation and steep, obscured slopes hid her location.
  • Multiple mountain rescue units, a thermal-imaging drone, search-and-avalanche dogs, the police Alpine unit, and police helicopters joined the effort after the first pass proved unsuccessful.
  • Passersby on the B305 reported cries for help, leading teams to find her roughly 20 meters above the stream directly over a rock wall of similar height.
  • The Salzburg air ambulance Christophorus 6 extracted her with a variable rescue rope between trees to an intermediate landing on the lower Jochbergstraße, where a Reichenhall ambulance continued care before she was flown to Klinikum Traunstein.
  • The operation concluded at about 15:30 with 28 responders involved in addition to the rescue helicopter and two police helicopters, and authorities have not released her age or origin.