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A man has fallen to his death while hiking in the Berchtesgaden Alps in the southern German state of Bavaria near the Austrian border. According to the police, the 23-year-old from the Bavarian city of Erlangen was reported missing by a friend on Saturday evening. The following day, the missing climber’s body was found and transported to the valley by a police helicopter. The man had sustained severe fall injuries, a police spokesman said on Sunday. He is thought to have fallen in the area of the middle of the three peaks of the Watzmann mountain, on the western side. Friends separate due to w…