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A loose rock, a poorly insured rappel and a 15 -meter drop: intense week of bailouts in the Pyrenees
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A loose rock, a poorly insured rappel and a 15 -meter drop: intense week of bailouts in the Pyrenees

Jun 16, 2025

The Civil Guard of Huesca has made a fortnight of Rescue Mountain between June 9 and 15, in a especially active week in the Aragonese Pyrenees and at the gates of the summer stage, which one more year expects a large influx of visitors. GREIM interventions (mountain rescue and intervention groups) have included cases of enriscation, disorientation, falls, twisting, fractures and critical situations such as that of a badly injured Barranquista in Mascún or a climber that fell 15 meters in Peña Ezkaurre. Two of the most serious cases, the Death of a mountaineer in Bierge and the Fall of a young man from the Aínsa bridge This weekend, they were already communicated at the time due to their special gravity.

The week began with a double alert in the Scuzana strip of the Mondarueréruero Pico (municipality of Torla), where three French mountaineers suffered bruises after a fall to the same level, and another had to be evacuated the next day because it was enrisado. That same day, two climbers of Huesca They were blocked in Agüero’s mallows when the strings get stuck during the rappel, and were helped by the Greim after a complex aerial maneuver.

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On Monday, June 10, he resulted in four bailouts, including that of a woman from Valladolid with a fracture of arm and bruises in the head after a fall in the Racon strip. That same day, a 71 -year -old man suffered a fading in the Larri (Bielsa) plains and was evacuated with signs of exhaustion and dehydration. Also on Monday there was the deadly fading of a 65 -year -old hiker in Morrano, and the rescue of a French couple blocked due to lack of equipment in Cotatuero, in the Ordesa National Park.

On Wednesday, a loose rock caused several cuts and abrasions to a hiker in the passage of the coscorrón, while walking towards the Urquiza-Pomo crest. On Thursday, another woman from Barcelona suffered a sprain on the path of the horse tail, in Ordesa, and was evacuated by helicopter.

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Falls, blows and emergencies en route

On Friday, two complex accidents were treated: a 24 -year -old Pamplona young man fell from about 15 meters while climbing in Peña Ezkaurre, with various bruises and lumbar lumbar pain; And an Alicante Barranchist rushed without making sure from a rappel in the Mascún Barranco (Bierge), suffering an ankle fracture.

On Saturday the week was closed with four new bailouts. One of them, already published in media by its gravity, was that of a young man who fell from the Aínsa bridge, from a height of five meters to the river river run, suffering a cranial trauma. In addition, a woman was disoriented in the area of ​​Loma Verde (Aísa), a bathtub fractured her foot when she jumped into a pool in Fuente Tamara (Bierge) and a 62 -year -old hiker was injured her knee in the vicinity of the Cuculo peak.

The Greim teams, the Huesca air unit and the 061 toilets have coordinated all these interventions through notices of 112 SOS Aragón. The Civil Guard recalls the need to properly plan any route, take into account the weather forecast and carry the appropriate equipment, especially in areas with pronounced technical sections or slopes.