{"id":24022,"date":"2012-08-15T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=24022"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:13:09","slug":"70-year-old-german-rescued-after-surviving-one-week-in-glacier-crevasse-in-austrian-alps-24022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/70-year-old-german-rescued-after-surviving-one-week-in-glacier-crevasse-in-austrian-alps-24022\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old German rescued after surviving six days in glacier crevasse in Austrian Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24038\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/german-saved-8754.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24038\" title=\"70-year-old German rescued after surviving six days in glacier crevasse in Austrian Alps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/german-saved-8754.jpg\" alt=\"70-year-old German rescued after surviving six days in glacier crevasse in Austrian Alps\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">70-year-old German rescued after surviving six days in glacier crevasse in Austrian Alps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>German and Austrian rescuers found safe and sound 70-year-old German climber who departed August 8 alone on the summit Schrankogel Stubai Alps and fell to 20-foot gap at the height of 3000 meters.<\/h2>\n<p>Austrian media say the Bavarian man had only minor injuries, but was suffering from exhaustion and cold after his ordeal on the Schrankogel mountain (Austrian Alps).\u00a0The man&#8217;s cries for help were heard by 3 other German climbers, who then alerted rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0Austrian mountain rescuers extracted a 70-year-old German man claiming to have been stuck for around a week in a glacier crevasse, police said, calling it incredible that he was still alive.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old German fell through a 20 metre crack in the ice while on a solo climb up Schrankogel, a mountain in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol.\u00a0Passing climbers heard screams and shouts for help from inside crevasse and called local rescuers to the trapped man.<\/p>\n<p>German climber lay on the mountain-side, wearing a waterproof jacket and some form of scarf tied around his head when the help arrived.\u00a0The group of 7 rescuers checked the climber at the scene for injury.<\/p>\n<p>Franz Santer, from the mountain rescue team in Gries im Sellrain who coordinated the rescue, has said : &#8216; The rescue went well. We got the man out of the crevasse with a rope pulley &#8216;.\u00a0He added that the German climber had been resting on a ledge following the fall.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German and Austrian rescuers found safe and sound 70-year-old German climber who departed August 8 alone on the summit Schrankogel Stubai Alps and fell to 20-foot gap at the height of 3000 meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":24038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,85,14],"tags":[31519,31527,31521,31533,31532,31530,31524,31528,31520,31522,31523,31534,31525,31526,31531],"class_list":["post-24022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-media-news","category-world","tag-70-year-old-german","tag-austria-mountains-accident","tag-austrian-alps","tag-austrian-alps-accident","tag-austrian-alps-german-rescued","tag-austrian-mountain-rescuers","tag-austrian-rescuers","tag-german-climber-austria","tag-german-climber-rescued","tag-german-stuck-austrian-alps","tag-german-stuck-mountains","tag-glacier-crevasse-alps","tag-schrankogel-stubai","tag-schrankogel-stubai-alps","tag-stubai-alps-tyrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}