Chest pains when climbing mountains with friends: saved with the chainsaw



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ASIAGO – At approximately 12.30 pm, the Asiago Alpine Rescue was alerted to an illness along the Calà del Sasso, the 4,444-step path that climbs from Valstagna to the Sasso di Asiago. In fact, two pairs of friends were uploading it, when one of the two men, PP, 53, from Chioggia, he had suffered chest pains. Five rescuers reached the medical staff of the Asiago medical ambulance already at the scene, about the middle of the route, which was evaluating the parameters of the hiker.

Sick hiker climbing the trail: urgent to the hospital

As it would have taken about an hour to transport him to the top of the stretcher climb, the GPS coordinates of the place at 800 meters above sea level were made available, the emergency helicopter Treviso intervened, landing at a nearby medical point and helicopter rescue technician, then descended using the fixed rope placed by rescuers. Taken in charge, the man was embarked and, after the team widened the step with the chainsaw to facilitate recovery, he was hoisted aboard with a winch of about thirty meters, to later be transported to the hospital in Bassano for the evaluations of the case.



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