• Events A mountaineer dies after falling from more than 200 meters in Rascafría

  • Events The two mountaineers injured when falling from a summit of Peñalara work in the Municipal Police of Madrid

A 55-year-old man died Tuesday in the Dos Hermanas area, on the Peñalara peak (2,248 meters), the highest mountain in the Sierra de Guadarrama (Madrid). The man has slipped and fell on a rocky area. After receiving a notice about 2:30 pm from the Madrid Community Fire Brigade, the rescue services

have located the lifeless body of the mountaineer in the Canal de la Ceja area.

This person, who had moved from Alicante to spend a few days in the mountains of Madrid, was making a route with his partner when the accident occurred, according to sources from the Civil Guard.

The same sources have added that weather conditions (

there was a lot of fog

) and snow conditions (with the rise in temperatures, it is soft and slippery) could be the cause of the accident.

The woman has been unharmed, according to Europa Press.

In the rescue have participated

members of the Rescue Service and Intervention Mountain (Sereim)

of the Civil Guard, and staff Park Guadarrama, which has moved to the Agents Mountain and material to the area with an approved

vehicle snow .

The Special Group for Rescue at Height (GERA) of the Fire Department of the Community of Madrid and a helicopter have also intervened, as well as personnel from the Madrid Medical Emergency Service (Summa 112).

This is the second mountaineer to die in the Sierra de Madrid in the last ten days. On December 18, a 27-year-old man died at the Cabeza de Hierro Mayor peak in Rascafría (Madrid), one of the most important in the Sierra de Guadarrama, after falling from a height of

more than 200 meters

into an ice area. and hitting himself with several rocks, according to a spokesman for Emergencias Comunidad de Madrid 112.

In addition, on December 17, two mountaineers were injured when they fell about 60 meters down a slope on the Risco de los Pájaros, on the Peñalara mountain in Madrid.

Both work in the Municipal Police of Madrid.

One of the agents, 54, is

stationed in Tetouan

and the other, 56, in

Barajas

.

Two more police officers were in the group and were unharmed.

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