Three mountaineers, one of them with symptoms serious blindness and the face swollen due to the lack of sun protection that prevented him from movingwho had spent the night in a mountain shelter in Laguna Grande in the Sierra de Gredos, have been rescued this Friday by specialists in the Civil Guard mountain.
The rescue has had to occur on foot For the rescue and intervention group in Mountain (GREIM) of the Armed Institute of El Barco de Ávila, on the northern slope of the massif, after the body’s helicopter tried to access several times without success as a result of the adverse weather conditions.
Despite the meteorological inclement rainfall and strong gusts of seeing, mountain specialists have managed to reach the mountaineers and Make the transfer of one of them, a minor, the most affected.
This intervention has been carried out with snow in the spring state, which makes the agents sink into it, which has “enormously” the evacuation, since The stretcher cannot be dragged, as usual, but in volandas.
Finally, the specialists, to which other components of the Greim of the Civil Guard of Arenas de San Pedro, have subsequently incorporated, They have managed to make the transfer to health services on the Gredos platform early in the afternoon.
