Alpine Rescue intervention in Sedico (Belluno)
At around half past midnight the Belluno Alpine Rescue Service was activated at the request of the Fire Brigade, contacted by the wife of a hiker, worried because the GPS track of his route, which she was following remotely, had been stopped in the same point for several hours . The 57-year-old German, who was traveling the Munich – Venice route in reverse, left yesterday morning from a Bed & Breakfast in Bolago headed to the hostel in Valle Imperina, where he had never arrived. The interruption of the track occurred at Val Fogarè. A mixed team of 7 rescuers and 3 firefighters began to search the middle and lower part of the valley, until around 3 a.m. a sweatshirt and some money were spotted floating in the water. At 6am, as soon as it became light, the searches intensified: one team began to search the upper part of the banks, to identify the presumed point of the slide, while a second team made up of Forri and SAF members went up the valley. About forty meters further upstream, rescuers shortly afterwards identified the lifeless body in a tub, thought to have fallen from about fifty metres. From the first hypotheses, the man, who was following the Sentiero degli Ospizi, found himself facing the swollen stream to ford, tried to cross it further upstream and slipped. The body was loaded onto the Forrista’s waterproof stretcher and lowered with a small cableway to the mouth of the valley. Not being able to cross the Cordevole in flood, the fire brigade helicopter then transported her to Salet, where she was entrusted to the hearse. The intervention ended at 10.30.
