奥地利滑雪者雪崩后在雪中幸存5小时

The rescue of an Austrian skier who was found alive after being buried by an avalanche for more than five hours is being called a “Christmas miracle.”

一名奥地利滑雪者在被雪崩掩埋5个多小时后获救，被称为“圣诞节奇迹”。

Police in Upper Styria – the mountainous and forested region in southern Austria – said they were alerted Christmas Day that a 26-year-old skier had not returned from the slopes.

奥地利南部多山、森林覆盖的上斯特里亚地区的警方表示，他们在圣诞节当天接到警报，称一名26岁的滑雪爱好者还没有从滑雪场回来。

The man who alerted police said he had managed to get through to the skier’s mobile phone but heard only “crackling noises” on the line, the BBC reported.

据英国广播公司报道，一名报警的男子称，他成功接通了滑雪者的手机，但只听到线路上“噼里啪啦”的声音。

A rescue team was able to trace the skier beneath more than 3 feet of snow using an electronic avalanche victim’s transceiver, which skiers are required to wear in avalanche-prone areas. It pinpointed the man on a slope of Mount Pleschnitzzinken, in the northwestern area of Upper Styria.

一个救援小组使用雪崩受害者的电子收发器在超过3英尺深的雪下找到了滑雪者，在雪崩易发地区，滑雪者必须佩戴这个收发器。它在上Styria西北部的Pleschnitzzinken山上找到了这个人。

“You can’t move under a blanket of snow like this,” Stefan Schröck of the Styria mountain rescue service told Austrian public broadcaster ORF. “The man was extremely lucky he had a big enough air pocket under the blanket of snow, so he had oxygen too and was able to breathe.”

斯蒂里亚山救援服务中心的斯蒂芬·施罗克对奥地利公共广播电台ORF说:“像这样的雪，你根本动不了。”“这名男子非常幸运，他的雪毯下有一个足够大的空气袋，所以他也有氧气，可以呼吸。”

The man was found more than two hours after authorities were first alerted. However, the avalanche hit the region three hours before that.

这名男子是在当局第一次发出警报的两个多小时后被发现。然而，三小时前雪崩袭击了该地区。

A rescue team and local police dogs dug the man out of the snow and he was taken down the valley suffering from hypothermia. He was otherwise unharmed.

一个救援队和当地的警犬把这名男子从雪中挖了出来，他因为体温过低而被运下山谷。除此之外，没有受伤。