Things took a turn for the worse when the Bellmann's toy frog plunged from a 2,000 metre peak in the Austrian Alps. Picture: Jeff Wilcox/Flickr Source: news.com.au
The idea of taking photographs of stuffed toys in exotic locations has become increasingly popular. Picture: Nikoretro/Flickr
- Couple taking photo of toy frog in Austrian Alps
- Frog tumbles, couple hire mountain rescuer to save him
- Pictures: Travelling toys
A MOUNTAIN rescuer says he was hired by a German couple to look for their toy frog, after it tumbled from a 2000-metre peak in the Austrian Alps.
After an eight-hour search costing Doris and Juergen Bellmann 425 ? ($565), the cuddly green toy, something of a lucky charm for the couple from near Munich, was found, rescuer Markus Fleischmann said.
"It wasn't that dangerous a mission and, it being off-season, I had nothing better to do," he said.
Doris Bellmann, 53, told the Heute daily that she was taking a photograph of her engineer husband and the frog on top of the 2,192-metre Hinteren Goinger Halt peak in the Austrian state of Tyrol last month.
Her husband, 54, then slipped. He was able to hang on and get back up again, but the frog tumbled to the depths below.
"We spent two days looking and went home very sad," she said.
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