Overview
- Friends traced the missing man’s phone on the edge of Sölden and called for help around 3:15 a.m.
- Feuerwehr Sölden deployed 13 responders with three vehicles as temperatures neared minus 10 Celsius.
- Initial roof access attempts failed, leading crews to cut open the carport’s wooden siding to allow medical access.
- A slim firefighter crawled into the narrowing space and, using a rope system, shifted the man enough for him to stand and exit.
- The man was treated for hypothermia and taken to Hospital Zams, and mountain rescuers separately recovered another intoxicated, hypothermic man from the Ötztaler Ache that night.