Mountaineering accidents on the rise in Slovenia

Kranj, 29 January - This year's winter season has already seen more than 35 mountaineering accidents in which four persons have lost their lives. The number of such accidents has been gradually growing in recent years, with 604 rescue missions in total needed last year.

Mt Triglav
Ascending Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak.
Photo: AljoĊĦa Rehar/STA

The rest of this news item is available to subscribers.
The news item consists of 948 characters (without spaces) or 186 words words.

Buy the news item. Price: 2 tokens; on account: 0 tokens.

aaz/tzu/sm
© STA, 2020