Two men from the Alpine School of the Guardia di Finanza, engaged in an official training activity, died from a fall on a wall while roped up a difficult route in the heart of the Julian Alps, on Mount Mangart, on the border between Italy and Slovenia.
The victims are Giulio Alberto Pacchione, 28 years old from Teramo, and Lorenzo Paroni, 30 years old from Montereale Valcellina (Pordenone), both on duty in Tarvisio.
The two were walking up Via Piussi, a sixth grade that runs along the vertical North Pillar. The bodies were found in the night after the alarm for the non-return.
The Public Prosecutor's Office of Udine has opened an investigation into the accident in service that cost the lives of the two young men, both also belonging to the Cave del Predil station of the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps. Paroni was already a full-fledged technician, Pacchione should have taken the entrance exam shortly.
The dynamics of the accident are being examined by the investigators, but a first assessment would have been a tragic fatality, triggered by objective and environmental causes, with a probable collapse or detachment from above that dragged both towards the rocks. At the moment it has not been possible to ascertain the time of the accident and at what point on the wall it occurred. The two were not reachable either via telephone devices or via radio devices that they had in tow.
Concerned about the failure to return to the barracks, the financier colleagues at midnight reached Fusine Laghi and then near the Zacchi refuge, where their vehicle had been parked. Once they reached the base of the wall on foot, they saw the two bodies, presumably fallen for several tens of metres.
Both climbers had a very high level of preparation and were familiar with the rock faces of Mangart.
(Unioneonline/L)
