Both Willy and Toni had been swept off. In the fall, the rope had tangled itself around Willy’s neck and strangled him. Edi, still at the top of the cliff face and tied to both the fallen men, had been smashed against a rock at the top, fracturing his skull before freezing to death soon after. But his frozen body remained pressed against the rock, saving Toni from certain death.
Not important, just something I noticed: wikipedia has it that these causes of death were the other way around.
[Willy] Angerer also fell and was killed when his body hit the rock face, while [Edi] Rainer quickly asphyxiated from the weight of the rope around his diaphragm.
But it doesn’t source that claim specifically and I didn’t go hunting.
Not important, just something I noticed: wikipedia has it that these causes of death were the other way around.
But it doesn’t source that claim specifically and I didn’t go hunting.