You’ll suppose that having to be rescued up within the mountains would make you extra cautious, however not so, it appears, for one particular person.
Not solely was the identical particular person rescued on two separate events however, amazingly from the exact same spot!
On the sixteenth of this month round 13.45h the Guardia Civil obtained a name out for his or her mountain-rescue group (GREIM) to hold out a rescue mission on the Sierra Nevada within the space generally known as the Corral del Veleta.
The group set out of their Guardia-Civil helicopter and shortly positioned the stranded climber. He didn’t seem to have any severe accidents though he stated that he was damage and needed to be helped to the helicopter.
They then flew him to the snowboarding village, Pradollano the place an air ambulance was ready to take him to a hospital within the metropolis of Granada.
While nonetheless within the Guardia Civil helicopter, one of many group recognised the person to have been one of many two folks rescued on the Corral del Veleta again in April. He instructed them that he had gone up there this time to examine the state of the snow and ice, as a result of he, and his beforehand rescued companion had determined to go up there the following day.
Nevertheless, while wanting round up there, he had slipped and luckily had survived a brief fall down a frozen slope.
Editorial remark: the Guardia Civil will need to have resisted the temptation to throw him out of the helicopter from a satisfying top as a result of he was duly handed over to the air-ambulance helicopter on the ski village… with out additional accidents.
(Information/Noticias: Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucia)
