Overview
- The avalanche struck Monday between Coll de Bassiero and Estany Gelat in the Pallars Sobirà region of the Pyrenees.
- The victim’s companion was uninjured and alerted emergency services shortly after 2 p.m. local time.
- Bombers and the medical service SEM, with support from the Pompièrs d’Aran, located the hiker and airlifted him to Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron Hospital.
- Rescue officials activated the GRAE unit and two helicopters, and ABC reports the slide measured roughly 200 meters wide by 150 meters long as the companion managed to free himself.
- Local reports note this is the first avalanche-related death in Catalonia this year.