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There are hours of apprehension for the Trentino mountaineering community. In fact, there has been no news since yesterday morning Tomas Franchini, mountaineer, mountain guide and ski instructor Madonna di Campiglio. It appears that a snow cornice gave way while the two climbers were climbing to altitude.
Franchini was engaged, together with a Bolivian mountaineer, in an ascent in the Andean cordillera, near the city of Huaraz, in northern Peru, in an isolated and particularly inaccessible area.
From initial information, it appears that searches have been started by one local rescue team.
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Among his numerous feats, the Trentino mountaineer has climbed the Mount Edgar, in the Sichuan region of China in 2017, he obtained two nominations for the Piolet d’Or and won the “Paolo Consiglio” award of the Italian Academic Alpine Club twice: the first in 2014 for the ascent of Cerro Rincon and the second in 2017 for the “Kishtwar Shivling 2016” expedition, in Indian Kashmir.
On Saturday 21 March 2020, in full lockdown and with a ban on climbing, the Trentino mountain rescue team intervened near Madonna di Campiglio to recover Tomas Franchini who, struck by an illness, he was airlifted to hospital in an evident state of hypothermia. (article here)
The man was about a kilometer from his home, near the Malga Mondifrà, to take photos of his ice axes for advertising purposes. According to an initial reconstruction, suddenly he had a drop in blood sugar and lost senses.
