Cortina, mountaineer injures himself on a via ferrata at the Bus de Tofana

Intense work Monday at high altitude for the Alpine Rescue and 118

CORTINA. Polish mountaineer injured on the Aglio ferrata at Bus de Tofana. Around noon the Dolomiti Emergency helicopter intervened for a 40-year-old Pole, who was at high altitude with a friend, when he slipped for a few meters and suffered a cut in his calf. Both reached the large ledge a hundred meters above the Bus de Tofana, at an altitude of 2,850 meters, where the helicopter rescue technician was then landed in hovering a short distance away. After verifying his condition, the man was loaded on board to be transported to the hospital in Cortina. In a second rotation, in the same way, the rescuer and the second hiker were taken on board unharmed, later left at the Dibona Refuge.

Shortly before 2 pm, a team of the Alpine Rescue of the Guardia di Finanza of Cortina was activated due to an injury not far from Lake Limides. Walking with her husband along the mule track, about fifty meters away from the lake, a hiker had in fact acquired a suspected trauma to her ankle. She was joined by rescuers in off-road vehicles, PR, 54, from Varedo (MB), she was accompanied to Falzarego from where she left by her own means.

At about 4 pm the Alpine Rescue of the Guardia di Finanza of Cortina carried out a second intervention, in aid of a 53-year-old Finnish tourist. The woman was walking alone the path 214 of Val Orita when she, arrived in a gravelly stretch, she got scared and she was no longer able to continue. Once with her, now almost at the end of the journey, her team accompanied her downstream and then to the holiday residence.

Around 3 pm, the Centrale del Suem alerted the Val Biois Alpine Rescue, because, while descending with her husband from the Bottari Refuge, a 62-year-old hiker from Ferrara, MZ, had sprained her ankle on the cobblestones of the road. Three rescuers came to her by off-road vehicle, loaded her aboard her and transported her to their car with her husband. The couple then went alone to the emergency room.