#alpine rescue

Well damn. You've got yourself in a fine situation now, haven't you? Specifically, halfway off a cliff, holding on mainly with your sharp fucking nails, which you're now pretty glad you don't bother keeping trimmed.

It felt like the edge of the cliff just collapsed under your feet; you have absolutely no idea how it happened. You'd like to think some malevolent spirit chose this vulnerable time to try to off you once and for all. But they're not gonna do it, not tonight.

You grunt and try to lift yourself back onto the questionably-solid ground. But your feet don't have anything to brace against, and you can't quite do this with just your arms.

Marmolada: at least 20 missing, relatives victims in Canazei

(ANSA) – TRENTO, 04 JUL – The firefighters manned the area of ​​the collapse in Marmolada all night with drones and soon the drones of the Trentino Alpine Rescue will also take off. In the meantime, two groups of relatives of victims and missing have arrived in Canazei, who have increased in number: they are in fact three or four more than the 16 communicated yesterday. The victims are all at the…

Missing helicopter: third day of research in the Apennines

(ANSA) – MODENA, 11 JUN – The search for the helicopter lost track Thursday morning on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines resumed from around 7 this morning under the coordination of the Air Force and the Prefecture of Modena. The aircraft, with seven people on board (six passengers and the pilot), had departed from Capannori Tassignano (Lucca) airport and was headed for the Treviso area. Yesterday…

Glide on a snowy path, dead hiker in Lessinia

(ANSA) – VERONA, 09 JAN – A 54-year-old hiker from Mantua, originally from Goito, was found dead in a steep stretch of the path that climbs to the Telegrafo refuge, on Monte Baldo, in Lessinia (Verona). lost track. The body was identified by the men of the Verona Alpine Rescue, alerted by the Carabinieri who had found the man’s car parked near a bend in the road that leads from Novezza to the…

Etna: remains of a man in a cave who has been dead for decades

(ANSA) – CATANIA, NOV 10 – The remains of a man, apparently 50 years old, about one meter and seventy tall and with congenital malformations of the nose and mouth, was found by soldiers of the Alpine Rescue guard of finance of Nicolosi in a cave on Etna. According to the findings carried out by the Scientific Investigations Section of the Provincial Carabinieri Command of Catania, the death dates…

German tourist dies in the mountains in South Tyrol

(ANSA) – BOLZANO, OCTOBER 29 – The body of a 66-year-old German tourist was recovered this night on the slopes of Cima della Vista in Val Pusteria. The man yesterday morning left with the e-bike for an excursion. He had reached the mountain with his bike and then climbed on foot. From the summit at 2,988 meters, informs the news portal stol.it, he had still sent a photo to his wife. Then nothing…