Injured climbers rescued after two days on Austria's highest peak

DPA
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Emergency workers prepare for a rescue mission. Two injured mountaineers from the Czech Republic were rescued on Tuesday after spending two days in an emergency shelter on Austria's highest mountain. Unbekannt/POLIZEI KÄRNTEN/dpa
Emergency workers prepare for a rescue mission. Two injured mountaineers from the Czech Republic were rescued on Tuesday after spending two days in an emergency shelter on Austria's highest mountain. Unbekannt/POLIZEI KÄRNTEN/dpa

Two injured mountaineers from the Czech Republic were rescued on Tuesday after spending two days in an emergency shelter on Austria's highest mountain.

The two climbers had made an emergency call on Sunday evening after they were hurt by falling rock on the north face of the Großglockner.

Storm conditions meant they couldn't be rescued on Sunday or Monday, so they sheltered in the Glockner bivouac, a tubular steel structure set on solid rock at 3,205 metres above sea level which is designed to provide a place of refuge for climbers in distress.

They stayed in contact with the area's mountain rescue team by mobile telephone.

The two men, aged 25 and 39, were eventually flown off the mountain by a police helicopter.