Snowboarder stuck six hours unnoticed in an armchair lift, he owes his night rescue to a few bank notes

A Munich Snowboarder stuck six hours unnoticed in an armchair lift. He owes his night rescue to a few bank notes.

Armchair lift

A few bank notes saved to a Munich Snowboarder in the armchair lift the life.

A few bank notes saved to him the life: A Munich Snowboarder caught in the armchair lift has burnt in the Zillertal for his rescue money. As the Austrian police reported, the 22 year-old man stuck on the night of Sunday with icy cold for hours on the put down solar jet lift in the Tirol skiing area of Cold brook-Hochzillertal.

A small beam of light

When with the mountain road the missing announcement came, a searching action with about 40 assistants which developed, however, because of the darkness difficultly started. Only when of the 22-year-old bank notes lighted, the driver of a runway caterpillar on the beam of light became attentive. How much money rose in smoke, was not known.

The man was caught in the upper third of the lift going up to 2360-metre height as the Austrian news agency APA reported. According to police had brought itself of the Snowboarder presumably even in his predicament: He got after closing hours into the armchair lift talabwärts because he did not credit with the departure probably himself any more. He was brought after the rescue with a light undercooling in a hospital which he left short time later again.

Clear roadblocks

According to the manager of the mountain roads Hochzillertal, Heinz Schulz, the lift was not admitted for drivings downhill at all. Roadblocks and signs made this also clear, said Schulz.