June 22, 200818 yr Wonderbra: Mountain girl saved by throwing her underwear on cable car Last updated at 10:07 PM on 22nd June 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Rescue workers in the Alps were alerted by hiker's bra An American woman was airlifted from a German mountainside after sending an SOS signal… with her bra. The woman - missing for over three days - hooked the brightly coloured sports bra on a cable used for transporting logs to a valley below hoping it would lead rescuers to her. The 24-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Colorado injured herself in the Bavarian Alps while walking solo near Berchtesgaden close to the border with Austria. "She was saved because she was really clever and in good physical shape," said police chief Adolph Günther. “Hanging the bra out saved her life because a logger saw it, heard about the search for a missing woman, and called mountain rescue.” The 36" DD bra’s owner was found a few hours after it was spotted three days later by a helicopter crew. She was stuck on a crag 1,250 metres high and was winched to safety in what rescuers described as a “tense situation.” The woman had been hiking when the weather turned bad, lost her way, fell 18 feet down a crevasse and injured a shoulder, ankle and her skull. She blundered on to the crag where she hung out her underwear and waited with a small flask of water and some biscuits. Authorities said she will make a full recovery. Her parents flew in to Germany on Saturday to be with her.
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