Tatras mountain rescue team in action

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Tatras mountain rescue team in action

Tatras mountain rescue team in action

A boy fell some meters and broke his forearm just in steepest part of the trail to the saddle Bystre sedlo, just some meters below the saddle. They were just a 50 meters above us when it happened. The Tatras mountain rescue team were called for help. They did a good work. The dominating summit is Satan (2432 m). The date of the photo: 2nd august 2001. Photo by Ladislav Ruttkay. He took the photo with his first digital camera with the resolution of 70 000 pixels...
Tomas Kristofory
on Jan 8, 2007 9:07 pm
Lat/Lon: 49.16644°N / 20.03048°E
Image Type(s): Hiking,  Scenery
Image ID: 258408

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arturf

arturf - Jan 15, 2007 1:06 pm - Voted 10/10

Poor fellow!

Bad luck! By the way, is that true, that helicopter rescue in Tatras costs about 5000 EUR?

Tomas Kristofory

Tomas Kristofory - Jan 15, 2007 1:15 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Poor fellow!

Those times (in 2001) the mountain rescue was for free.

A helicopter rescue can cost that much now, there were some cases, when 4000-5000 EUR must have been paid for the helicopter rescue.

arturf

arturf - Jan 15, 2007 1:17 pm - Voted 10/10

Re: Poor fellow!

I am going to buy an insurance for my Tatra trip in March! :)

Tomas Kristofory

Tomas Kristofory - Jan 15, 2007 1:23 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Poor fellow!

What a good idea! The insurance costs only 0,7 EUR per day... That's incomparable to 5000 EUR in case of ... but rather these cases are not going to be your case! I wish you not to need the rescue !

arturf

arturf - Jan 15, 2007 1:24 pm - Voted 10/10

Thanks!

I hope so too! ;)

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