The month of June came, the good weather, the heat in the valleys and was as if someone gave prizes up there, in the mountains: people everywhere touring trails on foot, by bike, to the race, all looking for pure and fresh air on the heights. But this summer has been different, worse: between June 21 and July 23, 83 people have died in and five are still missing. An exaggeration, 20 % more than usual according to the CNSAS (National Alpine and Mildeent Rescue Corps), which is overcome before the avalanche of interventions to be carried out. They simply do not supply.
Against what may seem, mortal accidents are not given in technical climbing activities, but between hikers, heading the statistics collected in the transalpine country in 2024: 44.3% of the 466 deaths were hikers, 14% alpine and Nordic skiers, 6.8% mountain cyclists, 5.9% alpinists and climbers and 3.4% mushroom search engines. Among the most repeated causes of death, falls and slippery occupy 43.2%of the incidents, exhaustion 26.5%, sudden diseases 12.7%, while bad weather (4.1%), landslides (1.3%), avalanches (0.7%) and shocks Anaphylactics (0.4%) explain the rest of fatalities.

In Spain, more than 40% of the deceased are hiking practitioners, an activity that has a low risk perception. Santi Padrós, mountaineer and high mountain guide based since, he considers that “good weather explains in both disaster.” “Everyone is encouraged to go to the mountain, but many forget to get prepared and, in addition, they go to take out: for the top or fulfill their purpose as much as it is. And hallucinating things are seen, like people walking by glaciers without hurry …”, he regrets.
El Corriere della Sera He recently published an interview with the head of the Alpino Socorro, one who sighted so much folly in the mountains that no longer knows how to contain it: “I have never seen so much death in a single month. We have exceeded all the limits and we are 20% above the average. It is hot, they look for the fresco, they encourage each other on social networks and do not even ask for information because they consider it humiliating. pay…”.
There are those that leave at night, after the work shift, dresses to go tapas and are lost in the heights. And they call Socorro to the edge of a nervous attack. There are those who go to a wall without rope or harnesses, because they have read the guide badly and thought that to climb the mountain it was enough to walk along a somewhat aerial path. There are those that get into a ferrata road carrying a baby in their backpacks … until they should ask for help.
The profile of the deceased is revealing: 80.4%are Italians, followed by Germans (6.8%), French (1.6%) and Austrians (1%). These are mostly (67.9%) men of an age between 50 and 60, followed by 60 and young people between 20 and 30 years old. 91.4% are not federated. The analysis of the CNSAS reveals the constant pressure on the system of, which is not saturated, but is dangerously approaches its limit. All actors involved in rescues scream for prevention, awareness and training in the natural environment to reduce risks and limit the number of accidents. That is, common sense not to confuse the mountain with a summer fair.