Two Hungarian hikers went missing on Sunday at an altitude of 1,700 meters in the Alps north of the capital Ljubljana when the weather turned bad.
Mountain rescue teams in Slovenia have found the body of a Hungarian hiker who got lost in a blizzard in the Alps last week. A Facebook post says: The team found the man’s body in a valley and gave no signs of life, he said.
Rescue teams descended to the gorge using ropes after the Slovenian police helicopter brought them to the scene. “We found the hiker 250 meters below the crash siteA. more than two meters under snow“said the rescue service.
Two hikers from Hungary they missed sunday As the weather gets worse while they’re around Approximately 1,700 meters above sea level in the AlpsNorth of the capital Ljubljana.
Slovenian rescue teams carried Days when helicopters cannot be flown in the region due to strong winds. The Hungarian hiker was found and taken to safety on Monday, but rescuers had to retreat before they could locate the man with a broken leg.
The snowstorm also left tens of thousands of people without power in the Balkans, closed schools and disrupted traffic in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. Slovenia is known for mountaineering and hiking in the Alps.