Climbs Camp Towers to Photograph Sunset but Falls, Belluno Mountaineer Dead

Tragedy in the mountains of Belluno, where a 71-year-old mountaineer from Limana, who left yesterday to photograph the sunset on the Torri del Camp, was found dead after a night of searching.

The man, an expert mountaineer, with a deep knowledge of the Belluno mountains and an esteemed photographer, had left yesterday afternoon. He did not return in the evening and his worried wife turned to a friend and rescuer from Belluno around 11 pm, who alerted the Alpine Rescue of Agordo.

After checking that the man’s car was still parked at Malga Framont, the Agordo rescuers, together with the Belluno rescuer, went back up to where the Alta Via path intersects the return of the Ferrata and the trail that goes up to the Towers. After having searched the lower part under the walls and having reached the middle ledge, one team continued to check the ledge, one headed towards the Campanile degli Zoldani, the last one headed towards the fork that divides the second and third towers.

Once past the fork, arrived under the Second Camp Toweraround three o’clock the rescuers have the man’s body was located, about twenty meters below the track, at an altitude of 2,300 meters. After having descended and unfortunately verified the conditions, the rescuers gathered and returned to the nearby Rifugio Carestiato, where they waited for first light, and then returned to the base camp at Malga Framont. From there, 4 of them were embarked on Falco 2, to support the operations.

The helicopter then transported them to altitude and left them together with the helicopter rescue technician, to then proceed with a winch to recover and transport the body downstream. The mountaineer was probably at the top of the second tower, it is not known whether during the ascent or descent phase, with all the photographic material in his backpack, when he slipped down a vertical wall, losing his life and stopping about fifty meters belowbefore a rock jump.