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They confirm that the frozen corpse found on a hill in San Juan belongs to Marta 'Patty' Altamirano, who has been missing since 1981

2023-02-03T22:48:26.666Z


This was reported by Corina, the victim's sister, who traveled to identify the body. The woman had lost her way more than 40 years ago on a journey.


"Yeah, it's Patty."

This is how the four brothers of Marta Altamirano confirmed that the frozen corpse found in the province of San Juan belonged to her, the Tucuman climber who had been

missing since 1981

, at the age of 20, when she made

 a journey on Cerro Mercedario

.

The body was found at the end of January by another group of expeditionaries and last Saturday she had been able to rescue herself from the place of discovery.

Now the relatives reported the news, after an hour of recognition in the facilities of the Laboratory and the Judicial Morgue, where the body found by a group of people was transferred last Tuesday, January 24.

It was

attached to a glacier 5,000 meters high.

As it turned out, he himself had remnants of mountaineering clothing.

That is why the experts believed that it was Altamirano and called his family to

identify his belongings

.

The purpose of the appointment was for them to try to identify a boot and other items that were in the area, pending the results of the

DNA tests

.

This is how they rescued the frozen body found in a San Juan glacier.

The person in charge of confirming the news was her sister

Corina, who had accompanied her on the journey in which the young woman got lost.

 In

more than

40 years,

it had not been possible to search for its remains, due to different phenomena of the terrain and climate.

Her sister had witnessed her fatal fall but she has not been able to access the place where she fell since.

“For very specific elements, we are sure that it is my sister's clothes.

Yes, it is her

," she said at a press conference quoted by the local media Huarpe.

As said newspaper added, when asked how she feels after having found her remains,

the woman sighed and assured that "everyone felt a deep peace

. "

The DNA results are still awaited, which - informed the attorney general Eduardo Quatropanni, in charge of the case - will take

seven days

.

It was he who confirmed this Thursday that the sample had already been taken on the father of the young woman, 89, and it had been possible to obtain "a complete DNA profile" on the body found.

This is how La Gaceta de Tucumán reported the disappearance of the climber in San Juan.

However, he had remarked that he hoped that his sister Corina would identify her before the results were available.

It is that Patty had climbed the 6,700-meter-high mountain with her and another climber, Sergio Bosini, and from the prosecutor's office they trusted that she could recognize the objects, as happened this Friday.

What happened to Marta "Patty" Altamirano

María Emilia Altamirano, nicknamed "Patty", was 20 years old when she began the journey with her sister Corina and her boyfriend, Sergio Bossini.

The three of them left

on March 23, 1981

from Barreal and stopped at the Hornadillas area, at the Álvarez Condarco detachment of the National Gendarmerie.

The next day, they made a base at the foot of a 4,300-meter-high glacier, according to the report prepared at the time by the Club Andino de Tucumán.

That March 27, 1981 they began the ascent to the mountain.

Around 7 p.m. that day, they made camp on the ice for the night.

According to Bossini and Corina, "Patty" went to tour the area to do a reconnaissance.

It was then that

she "did not find her footing and slid hundreds of meters down

."

The frustrated rescue of the body

Corina Altamirano, her sister, told local media with Sergio, they went down and found her body "face down".

Since they couldn't go down with her, they went down and asked for help.

They remembered the point of the accident, but that night "it snowed like never before" and

the body was buried in snow

, Corina told the local outlet sanjuan8.com: "The helicopter that went up couldn't do anything. We decided to wait for time to pass and it would produce the thaws".

In December of that year, they tried again, but a new problem arose.

A new crack opened in the hill and

the body fell off a precipice.

They were told that nothing more could be done.

"We mourned knowing that the Mercedarian remained in eternity," said the woman, adding that the news of the discovery of this corpse,

41 years later, is like opening a wound

.

But my parents, 71 and 89 years old, are happy."

DS

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