An Alicante mountaineer dies within the Las Ubiñas Natural Park, in Asturias | Spain | EUROtoday
A 28 -year -old Alicante mountaineer, which was sought since Tuesday, was discovered lifeless on Wednesday close to the Meicín refuge in Las Ubiñas Natural Park, in Lena (Asturias). The awful climate circumstances and a few unhealthy luck performed in opposition to this younger man, as a result of the physique was positioned simply 200 meters above the shelter the place he might have sheltered, however who failed to seek out on time.
The alert was given by the household about 21.30 on Tuesday, not understanding something concerning the younger man and simply ten minutes later the Emergency Coordination Center obtained the decision from the top of the refuge who reported {that a} younger man who deliberate to depart the Lindes space within the path of Meicín had not arrived. He indicated that, apparently, he needed to go to the shelter on Monday. He instantly mobilized to the personnel of the Kista rescue group that got here out by land, subsequent to the canine unit and the drone unit. Following the path of the route deliberate by the younger man, the rescuers, subsequent to the drone unit and the canine unit shaped three search teams already all through the evening they tracked unsuccessfully from the world of Tuiza to the Forqueta, from the portecha to the hill of the inglo and the third group left the boundaries following the massive foz till past the ports of Agüeria.
In the early morning on Wednesday, the medicalized helicopter of the SEPA was mobilized to the Ubiñas space, which as a result of unhealthy meteorology returned primarily based simply half an hour later. Meanwhile, within the space the troops of the SEPA rescue group continued to work by land, which earlier than 9.00 positioned a sleeping sack with a backpack simply 200 meters from the Meicin shelter. It was the announcement of the tragedy, since at 10.00 the rescue group of the SEPA positioned the lifeless physique of the younger man.
Components of the Rescue and Intervention Group in Mountain (GREIM) of the Civil Guard proceeded to carry the physique, which was evacuated within the helicopter of the armed institute to La Morgal and from there to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Oviedo by street.
The deceased mountaineer had traveled from Alicante to spend a couple of days in Asturias and apply mountain climbing for the generally known as the solizo of the Ubiñas. He started his route on Sunday within the city of Lindes (Council of Quirós) from the place he continued his path to the ports of Agüeria the place he spent Monday evening in Pastor Cabañas. His plan was to proceed to the Meicin shelter, positioned nearly 1,600 meters, the place he by no means arrived, and died on a tragic evening by which the temperature in that space stood round 5 levels under zero.
It is the second occasion within the Asturian mountain in lower than 48 hours. The first was recorded within the early hours of Monday with the rescue of 5 hikers in Somiedo, in full snowstorm and greater than 1,700 meters excessive. The younger folks, between 19 and 22 years previous, left on Monday morning on the route and have been disoriented attributable to unhealthy climate circumstances, with a blizzard and chilly. Given the impossibility of constant the march, the group determined to guard itself in a cabin within the space of Lagunas del Páramo, requesting from there helps the Greim (rescue and intervention group within the mountain). Some of the hikers already discovered delicate signs of hypothermia.
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