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Bodies of two mountaineers discovered dangling from climbing ropes close to summit in Italian Alps

Bodies of two mountaineers discovered dangling from climbing ropes close to summit in Italian Alps


Two Austrian mountaineers have died whereas trying to summit a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) peak in Italy’s Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia area bordering Austria stated Thursday.

Missing since Wednesday, the 2 males had been each Alpine rescuers from the southern Austrian metropolis of Villach near the Slovenian and Austrian borders, the rescue service stated on Facebook. Family members awaiting their return tried to succeed in them by cellphone however their calls went unanswered.

They had been scaling the “Cima di Riofreddo,” whose peak culminates at greater than 2,500 meters, after they fell both due to a mistake or a doable rockslide.

Their our bodies had been dangling from their climbing ropes, nonetheless partially anchored to the mountainside, after they had been discovered at an altitude of round 2,000 meters on Thursday morning, the rescuers added.

Initially it wasn’t doable to succeed in the climbers as a consequence of security causes however early Thursday morning, a helicopter with rescuers on board had been lastly capable of attain the 2 mountaineers, and their our bodies had been recovered, the rescue service stated.

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Posted by Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Friuli Venezia Giulia – CNSAS on Thursday, August 1, 2024

The climbers’ deaths comes after different casualties within the area in latest months. In June, knowledgeable skier and his girlfriend fell greater than 2,000 toes to their deaths whereas mountaineering within the Italian Alps. In January,  two Italian hikers had been killed in an avalanche within the Alps near the border between Italy and Switzerland, Reuters reported.

In 2022, a big chunk of Alpine glacier broke unfastened and slid down a mountainside in Italy, killing no less than 9 hikers.



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