Overview
- The 74-year-old left her Lienz apartment to go hiking and did not return, and she was found alive but strongly hypothermic after four days missing.
- Her daughter reported her missing only after several days, prompting a search that deployed 43 Bergrettung personnel, volunteer firefighters, a police helicopter and a search dog.
- Rescuers found the woman beside a valley path, gave first aid on site and airlifted her to a clinic for treatment.
- Separately in the Ötztal Alps, a 63-year-old man from Baden-Württemberg fell about 200 meters while a five-person group descended a ridge without rope and was recovered dead by helicopter.
- Authorities say the two cases underline the limits older or ill hikers face in remote terrain and show how rapid reporting and the use of coordinated mountain-rescue teams can affect survival chances.