Man falls to death taking photo at Alpine peak
A German man died Sunday after he fell from a peak after hiking in the Austrian Alps.
The 77-year-old man was trying to take a photo of his companion, a 63-year-old Spanish woman, after they reached the summit at the Greitspitze in Tyrol province near the Austrian-Swiss border. When the man stepped back to take a photo from further away, he stepped too close to the edge and lost his balance, falling about 200 feet.
Snow covers the Alps mountains behind autumn colorful trees near Innsbruck, Austria, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 (Matthias Schrader/)
The man’s body was recovered by a police helicopter after a witness who was also at the summit alerted authorities.
The incident occurred a week after ski mountaineer Adèle Millo and a friend fell to their deaths while hiking Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Ski mountaineering involves hiking up a mountain before skiing back down.
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