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Glacier fall killed Tommaso, his Allessandra survived: moving message after the Dolomite tragedy

2022-07-06T11:53:43.014Z


Glacier fall killed Tommaso, his Allessandra survived: moving message after the Dolomite tragedy Created: 07/06/2022, 13:40 By: Martina Lippl Alessandra De Camilli and Tommaso Carollo – Allesandra posts the photo to remind her partner. © Screenshot instagram/ Alessandra De Camilli The two can still be seen together in photos. Then ice and boulders suddenly thundered down. Allessandra survived


Glacier fall killed Tommaso, his Allessandra survived: moving message after the Dolomite tragedy

Created: 07/06/2022, 13:40

By: Martina Lippl

Alessandra De Camilli and Tommaso Carollo – Allesandra posts the photo to remind her partner.

© Screenshot instagram/ Alessandra De Camilli

The two can still be seen together in photos.

Then ice and boulders suddenly thundered down.

Allessandra survived the tragedy in the Dolomites.

She shares her first thoughts with everyone.

Trento – “I love you Tommaso.

Forever and ever," writes Alessandra De Camilli on social media.

She posts photos on Facebook and Instagram.

It shows a committed couple who are enthusiastic about the mountains.

But these joint photos at Italian summits will no longer exist.

Glacier fall in the Dolomites: Survivor posts love message to her dead husband

The glacier fall on the Marmolada overwhelmed the two.

Allesandra is in the hospital with broken bones, survived.

Tommaso (48) died in the ice masses.

He is one of the seven confirmed fatalities.

Allesandra is one of the survivors of the Marmolada tragedy.

She learns of her partner's death.

As soon as she could, she decides to commemorate him publicly.

She posts photos of one of their last moments together with the sentence: "I love you Tommaso.

Forever and ever".

At the bedside, Allesandra describes the moment when the almost impossible happened.

"I heard a noise and looked up.

I saw pieces of snow and ice coming down, I heard someone yell "go-go".

Then I think I passed out," Allesandra told the Italian newspaper

La Repubblica.

"

I didn't even have time to think 'now I'm going to run away' because I was overwhelmed." Then she woke up in the middle of the ice.

"My companion was swept away by the avalanche," said the architect (51), also from Schio (Venetia).

The couple had just arrived at the foot of the glacier when a deafening noise erupted over them.

Glacier fall on the Marmolada: search for more missing people continues

"Thank you for all the messages you have sent me and you are sending me, I will reply.

To everyone as soon as I can use the phone.

I feel terrible but I'm alive.

Thank you for being close to me," Allesandra wrote in a subsequent post.

Meanwhile, the search operation on the Marmolata glacier continues.

Drones search the area around the icefall.

Five Italians are still missing.

Search dogs are to be used on Thursday, weather permitting.

The glacier is unstable.

Every movement is now monitored with interferometers and Doppler radars.

At least seven people lost their lives in the avalanche accident on the Marmolada.

A surviving mountaineer describes the seconds when the glacier broke in the Dolomites.

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Source: merkur

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