Audi Company Executive plummets 10,000 feet during Accident while Mountain Climbing in Alps.
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Fact check time. The Cima Payer is 10020 feet high. If you have ever been on a mountain you would know that there is NO WAY he fell 10000 feet. Not even if he was launched out of a cannon on top of the peak. His actual fall may have been 700 feet. And the fall may not have even started above 10000 feet. There are articles from a lot of places that are worded like this. Such bad journalism. Or comms.
He fell approximately 200 meters.
"According to the report, Longo was alone on the via ferrata leading to the summit. However, at an altitude of around 3,000 meters, the Audi boss fell near the Payer summit. Another mountaineer who witnessed the accident immediately called the emergency services. But although the mountain rescue team discovered the man 200 meters below the summit shortly afterwards, all help came too late for the 62-year-old Audi director. The doctor could only determine that he had died."
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https://www.merkur.de/welt/audi-boss-stuerzt-bei-bergtour-in-gardasee-region-toedlich-zr-93275775.html
I was hoping that it was 666 meters.