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 A 14-year-old Iraqi boy was killed in a rockslide on an Austrian mountain as he was climbing towards one of the biggest ice caves in the world. https://www.thelocal.at/20200713/iraqi-teenager-killed-in-rockslide-on-austrian-mountain Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:31:58 +0200 iraqi-teenager-killed-in-rockslide-on-austrian-mountain It is one of the most famous mountains in the Allgäu Alps - and it could soon be history. According to experts, the summit of the Hochvogel will soon collapse, and up to 260,000 cubic metres of rock could fall into the valley. https://www.thelocal.at/20181121/hochvogel Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:10:52 +0100 hochvogel A 39-year-old tourist from Taiwan who got lost on Austria’s Dachstein mountain was rescued after sending a friend in Hong Kong images of her location via WhatsApp. https://www.thelocal.at/20160922/taiwanese-tourist-rescued-from-austrian-mountain-via-whatsapp Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:08:28 +0200 taiwanese-tourist-rescued-from-austrian-mountain-via-whatsapp Police say a mystery culprit who keeps trying to cut down a giant Christian cross on top of a mountain at the border of Germany and Austria may be driven by religious motives. https://www.thelocal.at/20160831/police-left-stumped-by-axe-attacks-on-cross-germany-austria Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:42:21 +0200 police-left-stumped-by-axe-attacks-on-cross-germany-austria A Swedish woman has been flown to hospital with serious injuries after she slipped and fell while hill walking in the Austrian Alps. https://www.thelocal.at/20160713/swede-survives-70-metre-fall-in-austrian-alps Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:01:01 +0200 swede-survives-70-metre-fall-in-austrian-alps A climber has incredibly survived falling 800 metres off a mountain in Austria in what rescue services are describing as a miracle worthy of a “thousand guardian angels”. https://www.thelocal.at/20160510/austrian-climber-survives-800-metre-mountain-fall Tue, 10 May 2016 12:18:58 +0200 austrian-climber-survives-800-metre-mountain-fall A 33-year-old Austrian climber died on Thursday when he fell 600 metres down the side of the Matterhorn after ascending the iconic 4,478-metre mountain in the Swiss canton of Valais with a colleague, also from Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150424/austrian-climber-dies-in-matterhorn-fall Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:10:30 +0200 austrian-climber-dies-in-matterhorn-fall Rescuers in Spain on Monday found the body of an Austrian woman who went missing while hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains, police said. https://www.thelocal.at/20141230/austrian-climbers-body-found-in-spanish-mountains Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:02:00 +0100 austrian-climbers-body-found-in-spanish-mountains Austrian rescue workers have recovered from a cave the skeleton of a skier who is thought to have fallen to his death in the Alps decades ago, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20141112/body-of-decades-old-skier-found-in-cave Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:00 +0100 body-of-decades-old-skier-found-in-cave According to a report on a music web site, the Swedish industrial rock band DEATHSTARS narrowly avoided a serious tragedy in the early hours of Saturday morning when the tour bus in which they were traveling caught fire in the Austrian alps. https://www.thelocal.at/20141025/swedish-rockers-avoid-tragedy-in-bus-fire Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:52:00 +0200 swedish-rockers-avoid-tragedy-in-bus-fire A 36-year-old man and his three-year-old son fell to their deaths whilst hiking on the Hohe Wand mountain ridge in Lower Austria on Sunday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.at/20141020/family-tragedy-on-hohe-wand-mountain-ridge Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:23:50 +0200 family-tragedy-on-hohe-wand-mountain-ridge A 77-year-old German climber fell 80 metres to his death in an Alpine ravine on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140917/climber-77-falls-80-metres-to-his-death Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:24:30 +0200 climber-77-falls-80-metres-to-his-death A 47-year-old German man had a fatal accident during a mountain hike in the Lech Valley Alps on Wednesday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.at/20140911/deadly-fall-in-the-lech-valley Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:10:00 +0200 deadly-fall-in-the-lech-valley According to a report in the news daily Kronen Zeitung, a hiker from Salzburg was seriously injured after being attacked by a mountain goat. https://www.thelocal.at/20140804/man-seriously-injured-by-mountain-goat Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:37:00 +0200 man-seriously-injured-by-mountain-goat A 40-year-old German hiker who fell around 100 metres while hiking in steep terrain in Tyrol was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. https://www.thelocal.at/20140731/german-hiker-seriously-injured-in-mountain-fall Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:30:37 +0200 german-hiker-seriously-injured-in-mountain-fall