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63-Year-Old Mountaineer Dies After Fall on La Bola del Mundo

Officials detailed a coordinated helicopter rescue after the fall.

Overview

  • An emergency call reached 1-1-2 Castilla y León minutes before 9 a.m. reporting a man had fallen on the Segovia side of the peak in Real Sitio de San Ildefonso.
  • A call handler initiated a multiconference with Sacyl to provide immediate medical guidance to the caller before teams arrived.
  • Rescuers located the victim in a steep, hard-to-access area roughly 200 meters from the SG-615 after he fell down a slope and struck a tree.
  • The regional rescue helicopter, carrying two rescuers including a nurse, executed a skid-support landing to deploy the team, who extracted the man to an Emergencias Sanitarias helicopter.
  • Medical personnel confirmed his death at the scene, and the Guardia Civil assumed the judicial procedure; he had been hiking with a group, according to reports.