Overview
- A Labrador with a ski tourer on the Rossfeld broke free near the highest point and fell over a snow cornice into Kuchl in Salzburg.
- The owner called for help, a Berchtesgaden police patrol narrowed the search area, and the Bergwacht launched an evening operation.
- Rescuers faced unstable snow and avalanche danger, so they secured the ridge and cut back parts of the cornice, an overhanging shelf of wind-blown snow.
- A Bergwacht member descended on a rope to the dog on the Salzburg side and hauled it back up onto the plateau.
- After roughly three hours, the volunteer team returned the uninjured dog to its relieved owner and closed out the cross-border rescue.