He flies from the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and only injures his ankle

Polish mountaineer suffered minor consequences after a fall on the Grande

AURONZO. He flies from the Three Peaks and hurts his ankle. It went well for a 56-year-old Polish mountaineer, who fell from the Grande shortly after noon. The Suem operations center was alerted by a group of mountaineers, one of whom had crashed. On his cell phone, a man with a foreign accent said that the accident had occurred on the first pitches of the Spigolo Dibona and that his climbing partner had injured his ankle.

The Suem di Pieve di Cadore helicopter then flew to Auronzo di Cadore and approached the face in reconnaissance, verifying only the presence of ropes in normal progression. After double checking up to the summit cross, the crew then noticed a person waving his arms on the scree at the base of the mountain, giving directions to the Cima Ovest. The team in difficulty, which had abseiled, was in reality at the foot of the Cima Ovest, on which the Demuth ridge had attacked. The 56-year-old Polish mountaineer injured in his ankle was recovered and transported to the hospital in Belluno.

Shortly before 2 pm, the Feltre Alpine Rescue was activated for a paraglider that crashed in Croce d’Aune, in the municipality of Sovramonte, whose pilot had not suffered any consequences, but had remained suspended between the branches of a beech tree about fifteen meters away. from the ground. A team reached the point, at 1,024 meters above sea level, on the road that goes to Campo, and with tree climbing techniques reached, secured and lowered to the ground GDL, 50, of Desio (MB). The rescuers then helped the man to retrieve the sail left on the mast.