Tips & Hints

Tips and hints

  • Wild feeding areas and Einstandsgebiete should be bypassed extensively (restricted areas note!)
  • Do not leave secured winter hiking trails (winter alpine dangers)
  • Thermoskanne with warm tea and snack
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Mountain trail classification

  • A winter hiking trail is "a trail established in the snow that is marked, maintained, controlled, and secured
    from alpine hazards."

First aid

Equipment

  • First aid kit
  • Mobile phone with full battery and cell phone charger
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Emergency call

  • 140: Mountain rescue - Alpine emergency call
  • 112: European Emergency Call (works with any cell phone & on any available network)

No network?

Without network and in radio shadow, no emergency call is possible. → Move to a better location and dial 112 regularly. Euro emergency call: access to any available network when 112 is entered instead of the PIN code after switching on or by means of SOS emergency call function.

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Accident report

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  • Who reports / callback number?
  • Where exactly is the accident site?
  • What happened?
  • How many injured?
Emergency Call App Mountain Rescue Tyrol

Smartphone users can install the new emergency call app of the Mountain Rescue Tyrol.
It helps to send an emergency call and at the same time transmits the own location.

More information and download

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