As always in high mountains, the weather deteriorates without warning.
And in the Andean mountains of the Atacama Desert, which has the largest number of peaks over 6,000 meters above sea level, the storm erupted a few days before Christmas.
“
I was called on Saturday, the 25th, I left immediately
,” says Ricardo Urban.
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A distress signal was emitted by a GPS beacon near the snow-capped Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world reaching an altitude of 6879m.
This Argentinian mountain guide lives in Fiambalá, the first town located about a hundred kilometers away.
Accompanied by 10 members of the gendarmerie and the GER (literally Special Rescue Group), Ricardo leads the expedition.
Their mission?
Find the two French who launched the SOS, trapped by the snowstorm.
Left on December 17, the two young people of 20 and 21, traveling in Argentina, planned to climb the volcano.
They made the choice of the Argentinian route, "
the most complicated for logistics and distance
", specifies the ...
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