Belo Horizonte Climber Killed in 80-Meter Bahia Fall Honored at Wake

Overview

• Igor Andreoni Barbabella de Oliveira, 40, died after a fall that occurred Tuesday during a climb on the “Lisbela e o Prisioneiro” route at Morro de Ponta Aguda in Itatim, Bahia.
• Firefighters and military police recovered his body from a hard-to-reach area, and civil police recorded the case with no signs of a crime and sent the body to the Itaberaba forensic unit for necropsy.
• Investigators are focusing on a suspected failure in the safety system, and the witness who climbed with him told a local association that his rope snapped.
• The local climbers’ group AEI is supporting the companion and shared her account, and the family held a wake in Belo Horizonte.
• Morro de Ponta Aguda is a well-known climbing site, the south-face route is considered of intermediate complexity, and the association says this is the first recorded fatality there despite few prior accidents.