The bodies of two Italian climbers were discovered on Friday in the Italian region of Abruzzo. The local mountain service announced it on Friday. They were missing for five days, while the search for rescuers was complicated by freezing weather accompanied by wind and snowinforms TASR according to the report of the DPA agency.
Two Italian mountaineers aged 41 and 48 were surprised by an avalanche in the Gran Sasso massif last Sunday. She found them approximately at an altitude of approximately 2,500 meters above sea level. The climbers still managed to call the so-called emergency line, but help arrived too late.
They subsequently made the extensive search difficult for rescuers during the Christmas holidays sub-zero temperatures, heavy snowfall as well as wind with gusts of over 100 kilometers per hour. There was also a threat of further avalanches in the area.
Although it was possible to remotely locate the climbers’ mobile phones, the rescuers were no longer able to contact them, and their bodies were finally discovered only after five days. The climbers came from the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.
