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The news was spread by the Ansa agency shortly before midday, confirming a dramatic event mountain accident occurred on the Gran Paradiso, in Val d’Aosta, in which a 57-year-old mountaineer from Vicenza died: Roberto DrawsOf Romano d’Ezzelino.
The fall into the void for more 300 metersnot far from the summit, happened around 9 am: a group of climbers who witnessed the drama gave the alarm to 118.
The man had climbed the Gran Paradiso together with a friend from Bassano: they had slept at the Chabod refuge (at the foot of the north-west face of Gran Paradiso, at 2,710 metres) and then set off again to reach the summit from the North route.
The two, according to what was reconstructed by mountain rescue of the Entreves financial police (Aosta), they were facing a descent of a few meters after a tower, abseiling before climbing back up to reach the famous Madonna on the summit, at 4,061 metres: Dissegna was lowering himself while his friend was preparing. It still remains to be understood what could have gone wrong, but what is certain is that his friend heard a scream and when he looked towards Dissegna, he saw him fall.
The climber’s body was recovered using a helicopter and transported to Courmayeur, while in the meantime his family members in Veneto were informed. The friend who was with him was in shock.
Dissegna, a butcher by profession with activities in Fellette, was a long-time mountaineer, member of the CAI of Bassano since 2009, an organization in which he held the role of sectional instructor: he was in fact part of the Franco Gessi Mountaineering School of the CAI of Bassano. He was the uncle of the current mayor of Romano d’Ezzelino, Simone Bontorin.
