A 47 -year -old man lost his life on Saturday afternoon after suffering a fall when he climbed on the road known as ‘Pilar Corredor’ On the climb to Peña Ubiña from Torrebarrio, in the province of León.
The operating room of 1-1-2 Castilla y León received a call at 4:23 p.m. The fall and it was explained that the climber was unconscious. As the Civil Guard has later specified in a statement, the mountaineer It would have precipitated from about a hundred meters high
After assessing the situation, the Emergency Coordinating Center resulted in the rescue to the Civil Guard of León, which sent a rescue team to the area, where it was responsible for the extraction of the 47 -year -old climber body and the judicial procedures.
Specifically, specialists from the Special Mountain Intervention Group (GREIM) of the Civil Guard of Sabero (León), assisted by the helicopter of the León Air Unit.
The rescue was hindered by the little visibility left by fog, and since the rescue was extended, a little lighting. The body recovered by a “heligrous maneuver”which consists of the descent of one of the rescuers, to which the victim is tied and subject, which is evacuated without the need for the helicopter to land.
Two more, saved
While this rescue was carried out, the operating room of 1-1-2 Castilla y León received a new call at 17.37 hours transferred from 1-1-2 of Asturias, by which two mountaineers who made the promotion By the ‘Elixir de la Lópe They had been eniscounted Because of the bad meteorology in the area, with rainfall and low temperatures, so they could not continue the march.
The Emergency Coordinating Center of the Junta de Castilla y León also resulted in the rescue to the Civil Guard team, which still remained in the area, as well as requesting the support of the Firefighters of the Principality of Asturias to carry out the rescue by land, already that the weather conditions and the arrival of the sunset did not make air operations viable.
Finally, After 6 o’clock in the morning of this Sundaythe rescue team of the Firefighters of the Principality of Asturias reported having arrived in Torrebario with both unharmed mountaineers, after a rescue hindered by weather and snow avalanches that complicated the progression of both firefighters and guard agents Civil.
Until the rescue occurred, a Sacyl health emergency doctor instructed both mountaineers during the night to prevent hypothermia from doing a dent in them. As the Benemérita said, in this case, both mountaineers have been rescued in perfect condition and have not specified health care.
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