A RUSSIAN scientist plunged 500ft to his death off a mountain after his hiking app sent him the wrong way, cops say.
Dr Dmitry Fedyanin’s body was found at the bottom of the Hoher Laafeld peak in Berchtesgadener Alps National Park, Germany, after he was reported missing.
NewsflashDr Dmitry Fedyanin was found dead at the bottom of the mountain[/caption]
NewsflashHe was a senior research fellow at the Nanooptics Department of Germany’s Siegen University[/caption]
Police believe the 34-year-old was using an app on his phone to find his way down to Gotzenalm near Koenigssee Lake, but was led along a route with no paths.
Mountain rescue experts found his body a day after his fall on August 12 when he failed to return back.
He is understood to have died from head injuries.
Dr Fedyanin was an expert in the study of ultra-violet light and was a senior research fellow at the Nanooptics Department of Germany’s Siegen University.
According to his LinkedIn page, he studied at the Moscow Institue of Physics and Technology.
Upper Bavarian Police spokesman Maximilian Maier said: “Our investigators assume that the male individual slipped in the rocky area which features some patches of grass.
“He then slid down at least 150 metres (492 feet).
“It is understood that he had been around on his own.
“The involvement of any other person can be ruled out.”
Dr Fedyanin is one of four hikers who have died at the park in just a ten day period, reports BR24.
On Saturday, a 29-year-old woman from Austria was killed after losing her footing on the rocky terrain.
A 49-year-old hiker also died the same morning, but from natural causes.
Meanwhile on Friday, a 57-year-old woman from the Black Forest fell to her death.
She plummeted around 200m in front of her horrified husband, cops say.