Injured skier rescued in Mt Hólsfjall

Rescue teams at Tröllaskagi were called out going on 2 o’clock today after a skier fell and injured his foot.

The man was one of six skiers who were skiing down Mt Hólsfjall, which lies between Siglufjörður and Héðinsfjörður, and they were going to ski down to Hólsdalur valley, south of Siglufjörður.

This is stated in a report from the rescue team Landsbjörg, which states that the man’s injuries were not serious but he was in pain and could not step on his foot.

Transported in TF-EIR

Rescue teams from Siglufjörður, Ólafsfjörður, and Dalvík went to the site. A helicopter from the Icelandic Coast Guard was on its way to a training flight from Reykjavik and was sent instead north to transport the man.

Rescue workers on snowmobiles left Hólsdalur valley and soon reached the group where it was at an altitude of about 400 meters.

The move was rather treacherous and the snow was frozen. Rescue workers were on the side of the injured man, who was then brought on board the TF-EIR, a helicopter of the Icelandic Coast Guard when it arrived at the scene around 15.20.

The helicopter of the Icelandic Coast Guard then brought the man to Akureyri where he was landed at the hospital in Akureyri around 4 o’clock. After the rescue workers continued operations in Mt Hólsfjall and were in their cars at a similar time as the helicopter landed in Akureyri.