Argentina: They find the body of ‘Paty’ a mountaineer who disappeared 42 years ago

Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Martha Altamirano She was a young Argentine climber who disappeared in the summer of 1981 when she fell into a crevasse while climbing a hill over 6,700 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains.

Forty-two years later, on Friday, February 4, his brothers recognized the body of “patty”as they called it, which was found days ago on the south wall of the mercedario hillby an expedition of mountaineers.

“The four of us could see that it’s her,” he confirmed to journalists. Corina Altamiranoone of his sisters, at the exit of the judicial morgue of San Juan, capital of the province of the same name, 1,200 kilometers west of Buenos Aires.

The identification of the body was given just one day before “Paty’s” birthday.

“It was moving and at the same time I am deeply grateful for having been able to be there, that we can all realize that it was her,” said Corina, visibly moved.

The woman, also a climber, was part of the expedition in which her sister lost her life.

“Paty”, Corina and a mountaineer of Italian nationality who wanted to climb to the top of the Mercedarian, they camped on March 27, 1981 at 5,000 meters above sea level, however, the first one accidentally fell into a crack in a glacier and it was not possible to rescue it.

Almost a year later, his family from the province of Tucuman he returned to the mountain with the aim of finding his body, but was unsuccessful.

Although her brothers were able to identify her at the morgue, they underwent studies of dna required by the judicial authorities of San Juan as a previous step to deliver the body of the climber.

Paty’s brothers told the press that the young woman’s ashes will be scattered in the Mercedarian.

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“I found a notebook that I started to write when we went on the excursion. She had told us that if she ever died on the mountain to take her to the mountaineering cemetery in Mendoza or “leave me where I fall.” What better place than to return to Mercedario? I think that is her house, ”Corina revealed.