https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Five people were killed and a sixth seriously injured after a climbing accident Sunday morning in the Austrian Alps, rescue services said. https://www.thelocal.at/20170827/five-dead-after-climbing-accident-in-austrian-alps Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:15:43 +0200 five-dead-after-climbing-accident-in-austrian-alps An Austrian man died on Sunday afternoon after he fell from a rockface whilst climbing a via ferrata in the canton of Valais. https://www.thelocal.at/20170704/austrian-dies-after-falling-from-swiss-via-ferrata Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:39:05 +0200 austrian-dies-after-falling-from-swiss-via-ferrata Two men from the Czech Republic have died after a tragic climbing accident on the Rax mountain range in Lower Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150702/climbers-fall-to-their-death-on-rax-mountain Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:02:39 +0200 climbers-fall-to-their-death-on-rax-mountain Five people have been injured after climbing the world’s oldest via ferrata, the Randkluft trail in Hallstatt, Upper Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20140929/five-injured-in-upper-austrian-alps Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:03:38 +0200 five-injured-in-upper-austrian-alps A so-called ‘roofer’ climbed to the top of one of the Votive Church’s 100 metre high towers in Vienna on Thursday morning. https://www.thelocal.at/20140807/roofer-scales-viennas Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:35:00 +0200 roofer-scales-viennas Two Austrian competitive climbers have shown their form by scoring a double silver in competition in the French alpine resort of Chamonix, on the slopes of Mont Blanc. https://www.thelocal.at/20140714/austrian-climbers-stun-chamonix-competition Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:25:00 +0200 austrian-climbers-stun-chamonix-competition