The 50-year-old woman from the Bavarian district of Erding was climbing with her husband on a route in Tyrol the previous day.

The woman fell from a great height below the 2,741-metre-high peak known as Griessspitze. Her body was later recovered by rescue workers.

The 56-year-old husband abseiled himself after his wife’s accident, the police said. He was brought to safety by an emergency medical helicopter.

The police said investigations into the accident are not yet complete.

Rescue after panic attack

Another woman from Bavaria and a Russian climbing companion were rescued uninjured by helicopter from the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest mountain, on Saturday. According to the police, the women had suffered panic attacks and alerted the rescue services.

The 57-year-old woman from the district of Passau on the Austrian border and the 47-year-old Russian woman intended to climb the nearly 3,800-metre-high mountain with four fellow climbers.

In the early evening, the two women remained exhausted at the Glocknerscharte wind gap, while the rest of the group continued to the summit.

After about half an hour, the women reportedly felt panic. A police helicopter rescued the climbers and brought them, slightly hypothermic but uninjured, to a mountain hut.

dpa