Despite the adverse weather conditions, they made it. The 5 financiers of the Alpine Rescue of the Guardia di Finanza, who left Italy last May 8th with destination Bolivia, reached, at 2.10 pm on May 14th (8.10 pm, Italian time), the first of the two unexplored peaks and innominate of the Cordillera Real. The tricolor awarded by the President was fixed on the summit, 5,310 meters high (coordinates 16°00’40.2″S – 68°21’58.9″W) which will henceforth be called “Cima Fiamme Gialle”. of the Republic to the yellow-green expedition, received at the Quirinale, a few days before departure.
The ascent to the summit took place via 3 mountaineering routes of increasing difficulty: the “normal” route of the Italy-Bolivia Friendship (maximum difficulty 5b), the route called Nec Recisa Recedit (difficulty 6c) and the route called “del Presidente” (difficulty 7c).
The mission, born from a proposal by Father Antonio Zavatarelli, missionary in Bolivia, was launched on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Corps, with the aim of training young people attending the “mountain tourism” course in mountain rescue. ” of Peñas, a town at 4,000 meters above sea level, about an hour from La Paz.
The expedition is made up of the Instructor Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Alessandro Alberioli, and the SAGF Instructors, Brigadier Marco Brunet, QS Selected Officer Riccardo Scarian, QS Selected Officer Walter Tomas and QS Selected Officer Marco Canteri.
