The police reported the incident at 10:30.
Witnesses are stated to have seen one thing of the incident when an individual slipped and fell 200 meters close to the Plateau Pulpit. It will need to have been slippery the place the particular person slipped.
At 11:18 the police knowledgeable, utilizing a rescue helicopter, that they’d discovered an individual about 200 meters from the plateau. The particular person has fallen about the identical distance.
– Sadly, it’s not suitable with life. The plateau was not evacuated as a result of early commentary. Efforts at the moment are being made to determine the deceased, the police wrote in an replace.
At 17:37, a Rogaland alpine rescue group descended to the deceased.
At 19:23, the operations heart of the Sør-Vest police district reported that the particular person had been taken out, and that the mountaineering path and the Preikestol plateau, which had been closed in reference to the accident, had reopened to regular site visitors.
Police interviewed a number of witnesses to the crash.
The deceased was a person. It’s not but recognized who the particular person involved is.
– The police are conducting additional investigation to search out the identification and explanation for the accident, writes the operations heart on X, previously generally known as Twitter.