A 30-year-old mountaineer from Navarre died this Monday after falling from a height of 400 meters into the Montferrat peak, in the municipality of Torla, province of Huesca. It was her companion who gave the alert to the emergency services, as reported later by the Civil Guard, who could only certify her death.
The notice was received at around 11:00 in the morning at Central 062 of the Civil Guard of Huesca from the Emergency Room of 112 SOS Aragón. The caller said that her partner had fallen from the aforementioned peak without providing further information.
Members of the GREIM from Boltaña, the Air Unit based in Benasque and a 061 medical officer went to the place, who flew over the indicated area without locating anyone asking for help, so the mountain specialists descended on the summit of the Grand Tapou peak. There they were able to speak with some mountaineers who told them the place of the accident.
In a subsequent aerial reconnaissance, they located the injured mountaineer at the base of the wall, some 400 meters above sea level. The guards descended to her with the aircraft's crane, and it was then that they verified that she suffered injuries incompatible with life.
After requesting the pertinent judicial authorizations, the corpse was removed and evacuated to the Boltaña helisurface, from where the funeral services transferred it to the Huesca Provincial Hospital for an autopsy.
During the day yesterday, the GREIM agents carried out another four rescues. In the first, a 38-year-old mountaineer from Lérida suffered bruises on her leg after a block of stones fell on her in the upper gap of the Alba lake (Benasque).
In addition, they helped another woman - a 56-year-old French woman - for a possible ankle fracture on the route from Nerín to the Fanlo hill. Meanwhile, a 66-year-old mountaineer from Barcelona suffered a dislocated shoulder after a slip when he was going down from Bisaurín towards the Foratón pass, in Aragüés del Puerto.
