Woman falls to her death while hiking in eastern Switzerland

A 54-year-old woman fell around 70 metres and died on Monday during a hike from Äscher in the direction of Seealpsee in the Alpstein mountains of canton Appenzell Inner Rhodes. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the police, it is unclear why the hiker left the path. The woman, who lived in Austria, fell in the steep terrain. This was reported by the Appenzell Inner Rhoden cantonal police in a statement on Tuesday. + Higher proportion of foreigners died in Swiss mountains Translated from German by DeepL/ts How we use technology to translate We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. The news stories we select have been written and carefully fact-checked by an external ...