An 83-year-old pensioner froze to death on Wednesday afternoon in a forest in Langegg, Austria. According to police the woman is thought to have fallen whilst taking a walk and was unable to get up alone.
Almost every day the elderly woman went for a walk and on Wednesday the pensioner set out at around 2pm. She was getting some fresh air in a wood near her apartment block where, according to investigators, she would go every day, when the accident took place.
Only a few metres from a forest path, the woman fell over and was unable to pick herself up. At around 4.30pm the woman’s partner alerted the police to the fact that she had not come back from her walk.
Sniffer dogs and a helicopter were deployed to search for the woman who was discovered in a matter of minutes at around 5.30pm. The doctor however could not help the 83-year-old and confirmed her death on arrival at the scene.
The woman froze to death, despite wearing plenty of warm clothes, due to temperatures which had dropped to minus nine degrees. The pensioner had left for her walk with Nordic walking sticks but these were found by police sitting by a park bench. The woman is thought to have tripped on the undergrowth in the wood.
