Night in the ice. “I ate the snow and looked at the sky”
Giorgio De Bona now he can tell about his adventure but he risked his life. It was found on the slope between Monte Cavallo and the Seed Sunday morning by the rescuers after a night in the dark and cold. Around him vertical walls of 10 meters. The 47-year-old ski mountaineer was on a hike when he suddenly crashed into a glacier. “The hole – Giorgio tells Corriere della Sera – was under an icy ledge, you couldn’t see it. I fell upside down. At the end of the ride I was stuck in the rock in the dark. I got a lot of anger. With all the strength I had, I freed myself and turned around. There was a very high wall that I started to climb. I made a huge effort: I had to climb as high as possible so the rescuers would see me. It was then that I made a difficult decision. ” “I dropped my backpack”.
I knew – continues De Bona al Corriere – that there were thermal blankets and equipment there, but choices have to be made. So I got higher. I remained standing, changing position to keep my muscles from atrophying. There alarm clock on cellphone sounded every 30 minutes. It served to keep me from falling asleep, slipping even just half a meter would have ended up at the bottom of the sinkhole and would never have gone up again. I was sorry for my 13 and 10 year old children, Michelangelo and Sebastiano, and for my wife Annalisa: I resisted for them, I would not have given up even if I had had to spend another night like this “.
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