Fewer visitors to Poland’s Tatra mountains
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
04.09.2018 08:00
Almost 70,000 visitors flocked to Poland’s southern Tatra mountains in July, some 10,000 fewer than last year, Polish Radio has reported.
Mount Giewont in Poland's southern Tatra mountains. Photo: Opioła Jerzy, GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), from Wikimedia Commons
Tatra National Park officials said heavy rainfall at the end of June and the first two weeks of July deterred many visitors from taking to the mountains, which are popular with Poles both in the summer and winter.
Rescuers in the Tatras were called out 205 times, helping a total of 239 hikers, in July and August, public broadcaster Polish Radio reported.
Falls on mountain trails were the most common cause of accidents, with hikers most often injuring their ankles and knees, according to the PAP state news agency.
(pk/gs)
Source: Polish Radio/PAP