A 55-year-old hiker is recovering in an Upper Austrian clinic after she suffered a cramp and passed out yesterday (Tues).The woman from Attersee was hiking across the Sonnstein Mountain near Traunkirchen in Upper Austrias Gmunden district when she suddenly suffered a cramp in her leg. Her pals said she collapsed and fell unconscious within minutes.An […]
Styrian police said today (Thurs) a pensioner drowned in a well on Tuesday evening.Officials in Krusdorf in the district of Feldbach announced the 78-year-olds body was found by his wife. They added the elderly man had supposedly lost balance as he died instantly after plunging down eight metres.His wife told officers he had been busy […]
A 30-year-old man escaped with minor injuries after plunging 100 metres from the wall of a fortress in Salzburg on Saturday night.The man was at a wedding ceremony at the Kapuziner Schlößl castle at the citys Kapuzinerberg hill when he slipped and fell around 100 metres after climbing the castles wall. He was rescued by […]
Despite an increase today (Fri) the water level in the Danube around Vienna is stable, officials have said.This morning the level rose to 6.50 metres from 6.45 yesterday and danger of flooding is expected if it reaches seven metres.But the citys Emergency Flood Service has said Vienna should escape due to its “relief channel” (Entlastungsgerinne), […]
Environmental alarm bells are ringing as the vast majority of Austrias glaciers shrunk last year.Andrea Fischer of the Austrian Alps Society (OeAV) said today (Fri) studies have shown that 91 per cent of the countrys glaciers diminished in size in 2009.Fischer said the Niederjochferner decreased most drastically by 46 metres, followed by the Kesselwandferner (minus […]
A 39-year-old Tyrolean ski tourer had a lucky escape after being dragged 150 metres by an avalanche in the provinces Axamer Lizum ski resort.Local officials said today (Mon) the man was rescued after he managed to stick out his head in yesterdays incidence.Another ski tourer walking up a different mountain spotted the mans head after […]
A Lower Austrian ski tourer was rescued with a rope via helicopter after falling 250 metres at a steep snow-covered area in the Dachstein region today (Tues).The injured 42-year-old woman was hospitalised in Schladming, Styria, rescue operation group ÖAMTC said.Local officials said the woman who was on a ski tour with her husband […]
A huge mammoth made of ice and snow is the latest attraction for young and old at the Galtür ski resort in Tyrol.The sculpture dubbed “Manni the Mammoth”, which is six metres high and 12 metres long, is located on a sea level of 1,584 metres and surrounded by mountains scaling around 3,000 metres. It […]
A Czech skier was seriously injured yesterday (Sun) when he fell 100 metres while touring on the Krippenstein mountain in Upper Austria, police said.The man strayed into an area marked by signs warning it was impassable and dangerous but nonetheless kept going until he fell. A companion sounded the alarm.Rescuers took the man by helicopter […]
Twenty-four rescuers used a rope to move two stranded winter sportsmen to safety near Bad Gastein, Salzburg, yesterday (Thurs).The two men, a Latvian, 24, and a Swede, 23, who were working as seasonal labourers at establishments in the Gastein valley, decided at 1:30pm to go off-piste, one with skis and the other with a snowboard, […]