Anton "Tone" Pogačnik (4 January 1919 – June 2013)[1] was a Slovenian cross-country skier who participated in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
[2] On 26 April 1946 Pogačnik fell nearly to his death on Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia, after falling down a gap of 96 meters.
After becoming confused and lost in the fog, he had approached a dark section that he believed to be a rock structure, but was actually a drop.
He landed on a snowy field between two rocky pillars and became stuck, having to wait several hours before being rescued.
[3][4][5] From the death of Karlo Umek on 25 September 2010,[6] until his own, he was the oldest living Slovenian Olympic athlete.