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"She is from peaks and valleys. To walk, she loves, and also emotionally, eye." He says his own family of Blanca Fernández Ochoa, that "as soon as he could, he went to the mountain, to walk, which was what he really liked." He took the car, which he liked to drive "in flip flops", then put on his hiking boots, and disappeared. "She used to go without a mobile, because she hates mobile, in fact she told you: 'What a wonder, without a mobile, don't bother me,'" they say in her family. "I didn't take the credit card for a simple reason: she doesn't have a credit card, she goes through life without her."

Perhaps all this explains why since Fernández Ochoa, the only Spanish medalist in a Winter Olympics even today, went "north" on Saturday, August 24, until last Thursday, day 29, his family did not report his disappearance . "She is like that, it works like this. She goes from her cell phone, goes to her air and likes to be alone."

By Tuesday 27 his daughter Olivia, international in rugby for Spain, was already worried. Blanca, according to family sources, had separated her separation very badly -from David Fresneda, owner of a diving academy in Murcia, with which she has two children-, she suffers "from small" diagnosed bipolar disorder - hence the "peaks and valleys "- and had had to sell his house, involved in economic difficulties - working as public relations in the company of events of one of his sisters, giving motivational talks for executives, etc -. The family, alarmed at the thick silence, began the search.

And he started it, among other places, in Cercedilla, in the places that Blanca knows as the palm of his hand since he grew up here, with his parents both working at the Navacerrada station and his mythical brother Paquito earning his medal 20 years before than her, in Sapporo. Blanca "climbs here very frequently," the mayor of the town admitted on Sunday, where the skier has a street and her brother Paco statue. His brothers, in full search on those dates when the Police had not yet been notified, went up to the area of ​​Las Dehesas, where the best routes in the area depart, "but we forgot to climb to the top one" , admitted Sunday family sources to THE WORLD.

Just the parking lot in which, after giving the alarm and asking for citizen collaboration, it had to be precisely one of Blanca's brothers, Luis, who found, at 10.30 on this Sunday, the black Mercedes Class A in which the ex-skier was last seen.

Accident or voluntary disappearance: these two hypotheses are the only ones at this time about the whereabouts of the 56-year-old woman and whom both relatives and members of the Police remembered this Sunday, perhaps frequently , in the past: "It was no, it is, sorry, "said Pedro Herranz, the head of the search device. Aiming at the accident, from this device it was speculated, in conversation with this newspaper, with the significant hailstorm in the area last Friday: "If that catches a mountaineer in a potentially dangerous position, be careful."

In the background, linking with the hypothesis of voluntary disappearance, Blanca's sadness in recent times. "Let's see, she always, for the ailment she has been diagnosed with, emotionally goes up and down, but now she was fine, she had spent a not so good time and now she was much better, she is a fighter," says a brother-in-law of his, Adrián Federici , married to his sister Lola and in whose White house he lived now. "He sold his and he didn't know if he could go anywhere else, what to do. We told him: 'Wait, come here take your time, let us take care of you.'"

White this summer was not exactly a depressed woman, for him. "Not at all, he was much better, whole. On Wednesday before he left we went to the movies. During the summer he was barbecuing with his children. I have a disabled daughter and do not see how he turns with her, it is wonderful how the encourages and loves her. No, Blanca was not bad, although it is true that she had spent very complicated moments, that cannot be denied. " Other family sources point out that she even had to be admitted in the previous months, that she was medicated and that the separation from her ex-husband had disoriented and saddened her. "But now it was much better," says Federici.

Be that as it may, the search for Blanca, the iconic ex-skier, could become a powerful citizen rescue Monday for the participation of volunteers and for the complexity of the area, so wooded that it prevents helicopters (this Sunday three dedicated to the task) practically see land, and so steep that there are abundant cliffs from which someone could fall, wanting or not wanting to. Peaks and valleys that this Sunday scrutinized 50 agents among policemen, civil guards and firemen, plus three dogs. The places where Blanca Fernández Ochoa grew and, in these hours, remains missing.

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