There has been an organised mountain rescue service in the Gesäuse for more than 125 years. Time has also turned this institution into a modern emergency organisation, but the task has remained the same.
At the beginning of the 1960s, some parts of the formerly very large operational area were handed over to the surrounding mountain rescue stations. What remains is a considerable area of over 300 m², which includes the Haller Mauern, the Buchsteingruppe, the Hochtorgruppe, the Reichensteingruppe, the Johnsbachtal and the Admonter Becken. Here there are seven shelters as well as countless gorges, ditches and streams. Working for the mountain rescue service has its downsides, but the good times outweigh them. To keep it that way, each individual is required to continuously increase his or her level of knowledge and skills. Only through constant joint exercises and personal mountaineering training is it possible to maintain the high level of our voluntary rescue organisation so that we can do a good job in an emergency. Because when the weather is fine, we are not called upon - usually only when the helicopter cannot fly, i.e. in wind, fog, rain or at night.