Riesending - Jede Stunde zählt (2022)
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Verena Altenberger, Maximilian Brückner, Anna Brüggemann, Sabine Timoteo, Marcus Mittermeier, Beat Marti, Sophie Rogall, Christoph Bach, Jan Messutat
After a cave explorer suffers a life-threatening injury deep underground, the mountain rescue team must seek help from cavers because its members have no cave experience.
The story
In the Riesending shaft cave in the Untersberg, explorer Josef Häberle suffers a life-threatening head injury more than 1,000 meters underground and twelve kilometers from the entrance. His companion Ralf Sommer climbs out to alert the mountain rescue service, while two others stay with Häberle. Bertram Erhard leads the rescue operation, but the mountain rescue members soon reach their limits because they have no experience in caves. A call goes out to the international caving community; among those responding is Salzburg cave climber Birgit Eberharter. Bertram initially refuses to risk the cavers’ lives.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the Riesending shaft cave in the Untersberg in the Berchtesgaden Alps, cave explorer Josef Häberle has an accident and suffers a life-threatening head injury. He is more than 1,000 meters underground, twelve kilometers from the shaft entrance. His companion Ralf Sommer climbs out of the cave to alert the mountain rescue service, while two other companions look after Häberle. Bertram Erhard is in charge of the mountain rescue operation, but his team soon reaches its limits because the mountain rescue members have no experience in caves. A call for help is therefore sent to the international caving community. Among those who respond is Birgit Eberharter, a cave climber from Salzburg. However, Bertram initially refuses to risk the cavers’ lives in the rescue operation. Through diplomatic skill, the mountain rescue team and the cavers are brought together as a team and set a successful rescue operation in motion.
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