It was, in all likelihood, going downhill when it fell. And the trauma was fatal. Thus a mountaineer died this afternoon in Val Ferret, an area below the Boccalatte refuge in Courmayeur, in the Aosta Valley.
The woman, who from the first information would be a 47-year-old mountaineer of Lombard origins, Sibele Spinelli, she was busy in a path at about 2,100 meters above sea level when the accident occurred at 14.45. the body was recovered by the technicians of the Aosta Valley Alpine Rescue.
Rescuers intervened after the alarm given by a friend of the mountaineer. According to the first findings, the victim slipped and fell on the path in an exposed and demanding stretch because of the moraine, therefore created by the deposits of the glaciers. In the fall along the slope she suffered several traumas and it was not possible to save her. The body will be taken to Courmayeur, at the disposal of the Alpine Rescue of the Guardia di Finanza who will deal with the identification and judicial procedures.
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