Injured Austrian Climber on Croatia’s Mount Velebit Saved by the Search and Rescue Team
June 1st, 2008
Zagreb, June 1 (CP) – Two young Austrian climbers had gone missing overnight on Mount Velebit not far from the coastal town of Zadar and were only rescued at dawn, one of them suffering from an injured knee.
The two females in their early twenties had gone off on Saturday noon and had not reported by nightfall, upon which their friends raised an alarm with the emergency services.
The search party had to wait for dawn in order to start their operation and found the two at 712 meter above sea level, where the two were stranded as one of them suffered an injured knee.
The operation was highly risky and involved a helicopter, which medevaced the injured climber to the Zadar hospital.
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