Manager of the Municipality of Milan on vacation in Cortina. He was with his sister, he would have turned 49 today
CORTINA. He falls into a roped party with his sister and dies. Marco Sordelli, a 48-year-old mountaineer from Milan, lost his life on Thursday on the Lagazuoi. His lifeless body was recovered in the evening after the two went off track. Sordelli made a flight of at least fifty meters, stopping on a small grassy terrace. The impact in free fall was fatal: there was nothing more to do for the current manager of the Economic and Asset Control Unit at the Municipality of Milan and former manager in the Municipalities of Varese and Lecco. The man’s recovery was rather complicated due to the strong wind that blew at high altitude. With the help of the helicopter, the men of the Alpine Rescue of Cortina and the Rescue of the Financial Police carried it out. In the area, even the carabinieri. The body was reassembled, brought downstream and delivered to the family with the authorization of the judiciary.
Sordelli was a great mountain enthusiast, as well as an athlete capable of running marathons. On Thursday he left Cortina with his sister Eleonora, four years younger, to climb the demanding Lagazuoi. At 5.20 pm, a phone call from the woman alerted the 118 station: Sordelli had fallen several meters while they were climbing Via del Buco. They had just realized that they had taken the wrong path, which is why the man had asked to be dropped. A fatal maneuver, which cost him his life. Eleonora could not see him, but it was not a good sign that Marco did not answer the appeals. A worrying silence, after a dull thud.
The rescue machine was set in motion in the strictly necessary time. Not being able to get close to the rock face due to the wind, the air ambulance transported a team from the Cortina Alpine Rescue to high altitude. Some of the rescuers reached the woman, who was stationary, and lifted her to the top, while a technician rappelled down to the fallen mountaineer, finding him lifeless. When the wind calmed down, the helicopter retrieved her sister, taking her to base camp, after the medical team took her over, to begin treating her hand abrasions, as well as a series of inevitable traumas and take her to the hospital for other tests. In a second rotation, Falco recovered Sordelli’s body lying on a stretcher and the rescuer.
Marco Sordelli would have turned 49 today and was a well-known person in Lombardy. He mainly dealt with economics, working as an executive in Lecco and Varese and also in the Milanese capital. Among his passions, even that of the mountains. He was on holiday in Cortina and did not tackle the Lagazuoi lightly, but with the preparation and equipment necessary for a roped climb.