tragedy in nepal during “the Double8-Expedition.”
Milan , September 25, 2014-20: 44
They wanted groped a record, they were overwhelmed and killed by an avalanche in the Himalayas : climbers Andrea Zambaldi, Verona 31 years (but lived and worked in Bolzano) and the 36-year old Sebastian Haag, German Monaco of Bavaria. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning (local time) in the course of the expedition, which started the day before, on Shisha Pangma (peak of 8,027 meters in Tibet), announced Thursday a spokesman for the project “Double8-Expedition.”
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The event was also sponsored by the City of Verona. The group of five mountaineers (there were also Martin Maier, Benedikt Böhm and Ueli Steck) wanted to complete within seven days of a one-two peaks over eight thousand meters, with transfer in mountain biking (170 km) between the one and the ‘other (Cho Oyum, at 8,188 meters in Nepal). The five professional climbing were venturing in the first phase of their “speed climbing” (rise in speed), when the avalanche came off 7,900 meters, a hundred meters from the summit. Haag and Zambaldi would rush for 600 yards, instead Maier has been saved. However they are not yet completely understood the dynamics of the tragedy. “If you were under the top true, it probably had to cross, which is not a stretch technically difficult but it is very dangerous – says the mountaineer Silvio Mondinelli -. I went back three times on that cross, for fear that came off an avalanche. I am very sorry for these guys. ” In 2008, the athlete Borgo Roma (who lived and worked in Bolzano) had reached the summit of Shisha Pangma with another Veronese, Andrea Montolli, scaligeri first to cross the threshold of the eight thousand ships with “On The Rocks.”
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Andrea with a passion for the mountains who died in the Himalayas
September 25, 2014 | 20:44
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