World Champion in ice climbing Harald Berger died under the fall of ice mass in Austria yesterday during his training of ice climbing.
 Climbing.de reports that about 150 tons of ice buryed him. The accident happened on Wednesday 20th Dec 2006 at 14.15. It was an ice cave near Hintersee, Flachgau, Austria.
At the fatal moment Hari Berger was bouldering about 3 m above the ground. Probably the shocks by the ice tools iniciated the fall of the whole cave. It is also possible that it was only the bad luck.
Even urgent assistence of fire brigade, mountian rescuers and police could not help him under the 20 - 30 metres blocks.
In the same moment there were other three climbers training with Hary in the cave. They had good luck and escaped without injury.

Austrian Harald Berger (34 years old) was known mainly as the elite ice climber. He was the tripled World Champion. In its climbig diary one can find plenty of hard ascents in domestic Berchstesgaden Alps, Ratikon or for example this year?s expedition to Madagaskar, where together with Czech elite climbers Tomas Sobotka and Ondra Benes and his Austrian climbing partner Floe Scheimpflug climbed first ascent Shortcut 7c+. He wisited with them also Czech traditional climbing sandstone area in Labe walley.