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If you're told to envision an alpine rescue dog, you'll apt conjure up a intelligence representation of a St. Bernard oregon a German Shepherd. A long-haired Chihuahua astir apt would not outpouring to mind. But it whitethorn beryllium clip to springiness the diminutive yappers immoderate owed respect.
A antheral — who has not been named — was hiking Friday connected the Fee Glacier successful confederate Switzerland, with his achromatic and brownish long-haired Chihuahua, erstwhile helium took a measurement connected a snowfall span and plunged abruptly 26 feet into a crevasse.
A photograph shared by the Air Zermatt rescue work shows the "four-legged hero" Chihuahua who helped prevention his owners life, July 4, 2025.
Air Zermatt
Stuck heavy successful the glacier ice, the antheral utilized an amateur walkie-talkie helium was carrying to telephone for help, according to a statement posted online by the Air Zermatt rescue service. A idiosyncratic adjacent received the distress telephone and relayed it to exigency services, but they were incapable to find the man, according to Air Zermatt.
When an Air Zermatt chopper rescue squad reached the country successful the afternoon, the work said the hunt for the missing man, "proved difficult. The glacier aboveground was wide and the spread was hardly visible."
"Then a decisive moment," the connection continued: "One of the rescue specialists spotted a tiny question connected a rock: the Chihuahua!"
The tiny canine was seen perched close adjacent to the spread into which its proprietor had fallen.
The Chihuahua is seen by the spread successful the glacier from which his proprietor was rescued, July 4, 2025, successful a photograph shared by the Air Zermatt rescue service.
Air Zermatt
"Thanks to the dog's behavior, the unit was capable to find the nonstop tract of the accident. The rescuers abseiled down to the casualty and were capable to prevention him," Air Zermatt said.
"The small canine did not determination during the full cognition and intimately followed each question of the rescue specialists," the company, which besides operates a determination airline, said. "It is just to accidental that his behaviour contributed importantly to the palmy rescue. The canine is simply a four-legged leader who whitethorn person saved his master's life."
Frank Andrews is simply a CBS News writer based successful London.
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