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A tremendous, sudden and very violent impact. One of those events that leave no way out. Just a few minutes ago, at 1:30 p.m., the fourth hiker died under the avalanche of Monte Velino. Yesterday he bodies of the first three missing starting January 24 in Valla Majelama. The Agony of the Corpses tells of the fury of the avalanche who killed the inhabitants of Avezzano Valeria Mella, 25, Gian Mauro Frabotta, 31, Tonino Durante, 56, Gianmarco Degni, 26, Valeria’s boyfriend.
Missing in the Velino, searches suspended due to bad weather: decisive technical table in the Prefecture
The turning point yesterday, after 26 eternal days of anguish and pain. The bodies were found at 1,800 meters of altitude, within the Majelama Valley, buried meters and meters of snow, where searches have always been concentrated since the afternoon of that damn Sunday. The intuition to change the perspective of work was decisive. The force of one of the many avalanches, in fact, estimated to have broken off at enormous speed from a ravine to the left of the valley dominated by an imposing ridge, has dragged all three to the opposite side, the right.
This hypothesis had already made its way the day before, when an area considered sensitive was identified, also thanks to the Benecon Consortium spectrometer, which carried out in-depth analysis of the stratification of the snow, in order to reconstruct its movements. After crossing the data, the firefighters again requested the intervention of the canine units. And indeed Simba, a German shepherd Born in Germany, from the Bologna Canine Police Unit, it took very little, once out of the cage, to get to the point.
The first body was found under five feet of snow. The fall of the mantle after days of higher temperatures could also have played a role. The other two were close. Along with Simba was also Bayla, another German shepherd. They are special dogs, trained to search for human bodies, even in water. They had never been in the snow before, so they spent a day of preparation in Ovindoli before being employed yesterday.
PATH
The hypothesis is that the group was walking on the left side of the valley, more protected from the wind. And that he was surprised a few meters before crossing the Colle del Bicchero, no more than 100-150, which had been indicated as his goal from the beginning. In short, a few steps from salvation. The avalanche may have stopped between 9:30 and 10:30 on that cold, snowy and windy Sunday.. The searches began immediately, in an operation that has little history in Italy also for its time. The best Italian professionals have come to Abruzzo; Technologies of various kinds were used (Recco antennas, metal detectors, georadarators, spectrometers); An attempt was even made to lift a snow compactor from above that an Erickson helicopter pilot had to unhook in flight for safety reasons.
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THE GROUP
Valeria, daughter of a carabiniere, graduated in Physiotherapy and assiduously dedicated to culture; her fiancé, Gianmarco, was also the son of well-known and esteemed merchants; Gian Mauro, Eni engineer in Milan, with an expedition to Nepal under his belt and the dream of climbing a glacier in Alaska, was the only son of the Frabotta family, awarded among the best Italian gastronomy; Tonino was the grinder of the city, in his historic downtown store, a brave and vital man like few others, passionate about sports and the mountains. Firefighters, alpine rescuers, the Army, Carabinieri, financiers and police will be looking for the fourth hiker since dawn today. The Avezzano prosecutor has opened an investigation.
Monte Velino, found the bodies of hikers disappeared in January
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