A mountain range in the northern Italian region of Lombardy became the scene of an accident on Thursday morning. An avalanche hit a trio of ski alpinists in the Valtellina valley, which became fatal for two of them.
Two people have died after being swept away by an avalanche while ski mountaineering in the Valtellina valley in northern Italy’s Lombardy region on Thursday morning. TASR informs about it according to the report of ANSA and DPA agencies.
The victims are 25-year-old Alberto De Maron and 28-year-old Marika Mascheronová – the sister of Katie Mascheronová, a member of the women’s national ski mountaineering team. They were in a trio on the mountains with another person who was not harmed and who later called rescuers.
