Eight years after the spectacular rescue operation in the Bavarian cave of Riesending, Servus TV is showing the feature film “Riesending” on Wednesday.
Life itself writes the craziest stories: On Pentecost Sunday 2014, cave explorer Johann Westhauser, called Josef Häberle (Roland Silbernagl) in the film, had an accident and received a life-threatening head injury.
At that time, he was at a depth of over 1,000 meters in the tortuous tunnel system of the Riesending Cave in Untersberg on the Bavarian-Austrian border. Two friends stayed with him trying to keep him alive, another managed to reach the surface with a fearless climbing run and alerted the mountain rescue. So began the dramatic race against time, because few specialists in the world are able to penetrate so quickly and deeply into a cave.
happy ending
The international caving community helped. The focus: Salzburg cave climber Birgit Eberharter (Verena Altenberger). The result is known: the rescue operation was successful, Westhauser, i.e. Häberle, survived. A real happy ending, just like in the script.
Red Nav-Account Time 28.12.2022, 05:30 | Act: 12.28.2022, 05:30