Tragedy at high altitude, a hiker dead and two injured in Piedmont – Intelligonews

Stefano Ursi

The budget of the tragic accident of the mountain yesterday in Val Troncea, near Pragelato in the Piemonte region, is a dead and two wounded, one of which is in code red. According to the law on online media, the victim is a woman of 54 years of age. The incident occurred at the altitude of 2000 meters, when the three hikers, one woman and three men, they would be slipped on a plate of frozen snow, then fall into a precipice. On the first it seemed that the accident could have been caused by an avalanche, but investigations of the mountain Rescue service, as we know from the news emerged in the last hours, the excluded.

The requested relief was launched a couple of hours later by one of the three hikers, who managed to hit, albeit in poor condition, the township Laval from where he raised the alarm. On the spot, the helicopter of the 118 who with difficulty managed to locate the area where they were hikers, and to carry the wounded, most severe in the valley, from where he was taken to the Cto of Turin, the other wounded, the less serious, to the Hospital of Rivoli in code yellow. Later it was picked up and brought to Torino the body.