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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 31 August 2019A tragic accident happened in the afternoon in the upper Anzasca Valley. A paraglider used as a 'double' flight crashed immediately after taking off, with two occupants, from the area of ​​Capanna Margherita, the mountain refuge on Monte Rosa at an altitude of 4,560 meters.

On board two Austrian hikers, aged 42 and 32 years. The paraglider lost altitude causing the two occupants to fall, falling into the area of ​​the 'Via dei Francesi', on the Italian side of the Monte Rosa massif.

The two Austrians died instantly. On the spot the men of the Alpine Rescue, of the Sagf of the Guardia di Finanza and of an air ambulance immediately went.

The recovery operations of the bodies of the victims of the accident were very difficult due to bad weather conditions. The corpses were hoisted with a winch on an Air Zermatt helicopter, taken off from Switzerland, before being taken to Macugnaga.

The paraglider probably had a sail failure on the east face above Macugnaga, in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.