Overview
- An 18-year-old in a youth hiking group fell roughly eight meters into a gorge near the Spieß-Aussicht at Zurückesteig by Schmilka on Tuesday afternoon.
- Companions split their response, with some descending to support him as others called emergency services.
- Bergwacht Bad Schandau deployed nine rescuers, while a Bautzen-based helicopter lowered an air rescuer and an emergency physician to the site.
- Ground teams approached from Winterberg and Lehne, secured the teen in the gorge, and moved him to a nearby plateau for initial treatment.
- He was hoisted by winch into the helicopter—identified by TAG24 as Christoph 62—and flown to a Dresden hospital, with no condition update provided.