CARTAGENA / A neighbor of La Aljorra dies after falling down a ravine in the Sierra Nevada

The Cartagena mountaineer participated in the morning in a winter route in group in the Puntal of Bacares, in the mentioned zone of Granada, according to sources of the Center of Coordination of Emergencies of the province and of the Civil Guard. The deceased was the last of a roped and, in one of the passes of the sierra, lost his balance and went down, for causes that are now under investigation.
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The event occurred, specifically, minutes before 11 o’clock. The victim’s own companions called 112 to indicate that they had lost sight of one of them and that they might have fallen off. Afterwards, they contacted the authorities again to indicate that they had located the athlete, who had a severe head injury.

The group referred to 112 the geographic coordinates of the place where the incident took place, through a mobile message. That allowed the personnel of the Special Service of Rescue and Intervention in Mountain (Sereim) of La Benemérita to travel by helicopter to the area and rescue the body. The lifeless body was taken to the helisurface of the Emergency Center, where the forensic doctor and the Judicial Police went. The guard judge was also notified.

In helicopter
In addition to the Civil Service Operational Center (COS) of the Civil Guard, they had received alerts from the Local Police, the Emergency Group of Andalusia, the Provincial Operational Center (COP) Infoca of Granada, the National Police Force and the Public Emergency Company. health services (EPES).

The victim had experience in the mountains, according to sources close to the Cartagena club of which he was a part. In the group remembered this Friday their participation as a volunteer, just a few days ago, in the organization of the Jimbee Cartagena Trail, a career driven from the Center Excursionista de Cartagena with support from the City Council.

The National and Natural Park of Sierra Nevada and the Sereim publicly requested that, these days, extreme precautions be taken in the summits of the Sierra Nevada. The reason is the serious risk posed by crystal ice and heavy snow in high areas such as the Veleta-Los Machos sector.

The bad condition of the snow, due to the ice sheets formed in recent days, discourage the practice of activities in this beginning of December. «It is very dangerous to carry out mountain activities in the Sierra Nevada, because there is a lot of ice. The prudent thing is to wait for the conditions of the snowy mantle to change, «they pointed from the Sereim. They referred to mountain activities, not to skiing on the tracks properly signaled.

Another mountaineer lost his life on December 1, when he rushed from a height of 200 meters. He performed a rappelling maneuver -down technique by sliding through a double rope held in an anchor-, in the final section of the Velero, in the Corrales del Veleta.