More than 6,000 meters of altitude, in the highest peak of Peru, the Huascarán and with serious vision problems. This is how they have rescued Monday morning, alive, three Spanish mountaineers who threw a relief signal this Sunday so that, according to the newspaper a rescue operation went to the Ancash region for its location and transfer.
Although one of the mountaineers had issued the emergency alert on Sunday, it was not until Monday morning when the high mountain police reported the rescue. The unit now works to mobilize towards a shelter house behind the back of the snowy Huascarán. Subsequently, mountaineers will be evacuated by helicopter to the town of Huaraz with the aim of providing them with the necessary medical assistance.
According to preliminary reports, one of the three rescued would have temporarily lost his eyes as a result of not carrying his protection utensils against sunlight, as indicated Canal N. In this sense, as explained by the Peruvian Andino (SAP) and sent Áncash News, The severe eye injury is due to constant exposure to the UV filter.
The medium has indicated that the mountaineer would have left his protection glasses in the height camp ‘Field 2’ located in the ascent to Huascarán. Asimismo, el afectado habría sido víctima de Photoqueratitisalso known as “snow blindness”, a direct affection to the cornea that causes the temporal loss of vision, in addition to disorientation and intense pain.
