US EditionThree people killed and two missing after avalanche in Italy
- On Sunday, five German climbers died in an avalanche after setting out yesterday to scale Cima Vertana, mountain in the Ortler mountain range near Solda in the Italian Alps.
- The Ortler massif, a popular climbing destination, was the site of the avalanche that caught two separate rope teams on Cima Vertana in South Tyrol, near the Swiss border.
- Italy's alpine rescue services said the first rope team of three was completely buried, and rescue teams confirmed two climbers were dragged to the avalanche channel's lower part on Sunday.
- Recovery teams located victims across two recovery periods, yesterday and Sunday morning, finding two men and a woman yesterday and a father and his 17-year-old daughter on Sunday morning.
- Search operations had been delayed by poor weather, complicating the response while two other climbers escaped unharmed and two mountaineers from a second team of four survived.
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At an altitude of more than 3,500 metres, on the icy slopes of the Cima Vertana, in the Trentin-Haut Adige, in northern Italy, an avalanche was launched in the early afternoon of Saturday, November 1. Two German mountaineering groups were caught in the snow flow, reports the Italian press agency Ansa. In total, five people lost their lives, including a father and his 17-year-old daughter, whose last gesture saved two mountaineers before dying. L…
Italian mountain rescue services reported this Sunday that five German mountaineers died on Saturday after an avalanche that occurred near the summit of the Cima Vertana, in Trentino-Alto Adige (north of Italy).The avalanche began early in the afternoon at more than 3,000 meters of altitude and buried two German expeditions that ascended the massif of Ortles, near the Swiss border.
Five German mountaineers died this Saturday near the summit of the Cima Vertana in Trentino-Haut Adige (northern Italy) in the Alps. Among them, a father and his 17-year-old daughter with a tragic destiny.
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