All US tourists missing in central Switzerland now found
A group of five tourists from the United States have all been found safe and sound one day after they set off to walk in Mount Pilatus in canton Lucerne. The last of the group, a 14 year-old boy, had found his way to a cogwheel railway and was rescued.
Earlier on Saturday, the others in the group were found by a hiker. The missing included one 48 year-old man, a 68 and 48 year-old woman and a 12 year-old girl.
Obwalden cantonal policeman, Edi Wallimann, said a 12-member search team from the Swiss Alpine Club had been dispatched to search for the missing tourists.
On Friday, the group of five took a cable lift up Mount Pilatus, a 2,121 metre peak. They intended to walk back down in the afternoon but were still on the mountain when night fell.
They decided to spend the night in a cave, but the boy became separated from the others, police said, adding that they were still trying to get all the details of what happened.
A relative contacted police after they failed to return to their holiday residence in Engelberg late Friday evening.
Walks on Mount Pilatus are popular with tourists, many of whom take the cable lift or cogwheel railway across the alpine meadows, orchards and forests several kilometres up the mountain and return on foot.
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