At least two skiers died in avalanches.

Two dead, one missing and several serious injuries: Because of numerous avalanches occurred at the weekend in Bavaria and Austria in fatal accidents off-piste. They had the police in front of the high risk explicitly warned.

 

Kochel / Rottach-Egern / Rosenheim / Vienna - Three avalanches have the weekend in the Bavarian Alps more winter sports is buried under a 27-year-old died on the mountain wall at Tegernsee. Also in Austria, the Mountain Rescue in continuous use in the field of Hintersee came a 52-year old participant in a skiing trip when an avalanche killed, one is still missing.

For the weekend, the avalanche danger for the service of Bavaria Alps issued four security levels. "It is 1400 meters above a large avalanche danger in deeper layers of the avalanche danger is moderate," said the Munich-Commission at its web page. In many steep slopes could already the burden of a single skier or snowboarder to trigger an avalanche. The police warned the winter sports so forcefully before the secured Runs to leave.

Also, the group killed the 27-year-old was off the runway while, when the Saturday midday snow board in Mangfallgebirge near Rottach-Egern solved. Three other men from his group were some of them seriously injured, told police in Rosenheim with. A 20-year-old was only superficially buried and was able to liberate themselves in order to alert the emergency services.

At the time of Duke Kochel am See has been a 14-year-old youth from a snow board and carried injured. The boy was referred to the police with two friends also drove into the open ski. Above a trench collapsed in adolescents. When he wanted to get up, broke up a snow board with him. In Wetterstein Mountains in Garmisch-Partenkirchen had two winter athletes after an avalanche itself exempt.

From the snow-buried stone

Also in Austria were sustained after numerous cases of fresh snow avalanche warnings have been issued, mostly from outside the marked ski slopes abrieten. Nevertheless, on Saturday a five group in the area of Hintersee tour with skis in the direction Feichtensteinalm to rain on Spitz.

During the descent along the ascent route led to a snow board from which three men were carried. Two were buried by the avalanche, but were able to liberate themselves. A 52-year old died in Salzburg in the snow masses. The seriously injured were salvaged by rescue helicopters.

Also in the area since Saturday Hintersee is a 47-year-old skier missing. The Austrian was a snow board is probably buried and killed. Because of the high avalanche danger, the mountain rescue search initially cancel.