Civil Guards located his lifeless body this Sunday. A 49-year-old mountaineer from Valencia died after an accident. climbing Monte Perdido (Huesca) this Saturday afternoon. It is possible First death in the mountains of Aragon in 2023. Agents did not find him until this Sunday morning, after waiting hours for the weather conditions to improve, which was too unfavorable due to the wind to even reach the injured person’s location.
The report of the accident occurred at around 17.00 last Saturday. Góriz came from his bunker, and a mountaineer reportedly fell. From the spittoon area of Monte Perdido, In Ordesa National Park. The call was made by his expedition mate, and he was unaware of the situation he was in at the time and the injuries he might have received.
Experts from GREIM in Boltaña, a doctor from the Huesca Air Unit and a doctor from 061 traveled to Góriz to gather more information and initiate the rescue. However, “due to the strong wind prevailing in the area, the plane could not reach the shelter. leave the experts about three hours away from the shelter and from there they would go to the crash site.».
Explaining that the weather conditions were very unfavorable after entering the bunker, Benemérita’s official sources added that the agents “spent the night in the bunker waiting for the helicopter to pick them up early in the morning” to reach the injured. person.
Already this Sunday, “weather conditions continued to be very adverse, making it impossible for the Air Unit helicopter to approach, so GREIM experts from Boltaña They started the walk on foot. After walking for a few hours, they managed to locate the “injured mountaineer.presented injuries incompatible with life. Nothing could be done for him now.
However, the agents remained in the area to wait for the weather to improve, until they were eventually evacuated by helicopter to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Huesca at 14:00.
deadly slide
The accident that killed this climber occurred at a place known as La Espupidera, located in the final part of the climb to Monte Perdido. This is where more rescues and fatal accidents have been recorded over the years along the Aragon Pyrenees.
charged More than fifty mountaineer lives at this point what everyone describes as a kind of glide that turns into a death trap when covered with frozen snow, like most of the year.
It’s a corridor sloping towards the summit, with a left exit “if someone loses their foot and slides downhill uncontrollably,” according to experts. falls into a deep abyss with no salvation». A perception that explains the name given to this part of the Spittoon as it literally “spits” its victims into the void.