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"We are very sad," admitted her sister Lola , who was welcoming her lately. "I think the storm on Monday 26 could catch her here, which was a huge hailstorm ... And if so, she has had an accident anyway. Everyone in the family knows these mountains well, but when you have to look for your sister like that , the dimension comes to you, you realize that you don't know so much. "

Not only their relatives - this Monday, 12 of them participating in the tracking device in the Fuenfría Valley - began to border on despair: between the Police and Civil Guard agents, sotto voce , the idea that the task began to spread it can be arduous: "Except if there is a lot of luck, it goes for days . "

Only around Cercedilla, 3,500 hectares such as 3,500 football fields awaited the 300 professionals - including police, guards and firefighters - who could not even divide the land into grids, as is usually done.

Why?

Because of the steep terrain, a complex maze of trails, ferns, pine trees, caves and even cliffs of which there is only proof that it houses Blanca Fernández Ochoa: his Mercedes Class A, found on Sunday. There is no other evidence that puts the former skier in the place, so the police also look for her, just in case, in "other places", admitted the controls without giving more detail. This is an urgent x-ray of the search, already against the clock, when we enter the tenth day without Blanca.

When does it disappear?

On Saturday 24, at 7:00 p.m., Adrián Federighi, Lola's husband, one of the Fernández Ochoa sisters, prepares to watch Real Madrid-Valladolid on TV. "Where is Blanca?" He asks his wife. The former skier has been living with them for nine months, since she sold her house and "since she didn't know very well what to do, whether to rent or buy, her brothers told her to live with them." "Well, I don't know where he is," Lola replies. Call Olivia , Blanca's daughter, who answers: "Mom told me this morning that she was going four days to walk to the mountain." No one is alarmed. Blanca, 56 years old and still in great physical condition, occasionally makes bivouac in the mountains. "The last time was precisely in Fuenfría to see the Tears of San Lorenzo, this August ... It was common in her."

When is it reported?

On Thursday 29. Five days after Blanca's departure, and after several unsuccessful searches by family members, her daughter denounces. The Police, given the time without news, recommends requesting citizen assistance. The family doubts, and decides to do it on Saturday afternoon. In just a few hours his own brother finds the car, parked in the last parking lot of Las Dehesas, the door of the dozen beautiful paths of the Fuenfría Valley. The family had come to look at Blanca's searches on her cell phone, where the former skier had typed "rural house in Asturias" and "rural house in Soria." However, his trail appears in Cercedilla, practically his home.

Why did he leave without a mobile?

"She is anti-mobile and anti-banks, she doesn't even have a card. She has a non-buoyant economy, but it's simple. It's not uncommon for her to go without a cell phone," explains the family. After the disappearance was made public, an employee of the deli del Rozas deli charcuterie, next to the M-40, gave an important clue to the researchers: after leaving home, on Saturday, the disappeared woman went there to buy food. The employee does not remember what clothes he wore, an important end for the search, but he was there. A detail perhaps not central to find Blanca, but to better understand her disappearance, because it helps answer the following question:

Was Blanca sad?

"He had a bad time, it is true, and he has a medical condition diagnosed as a child [bipolar disorder], but he was much better, he was stable, positive," they explain in his family. The fact that he bought food to go to the mountain would remove the ghost of a depressed and sunken White, and would focus the work on the accident hypothesis.

And the track of the car?

Although several witnesses say that the Mercedes had not even 48 hours where it was found, the family does not give credit to this version, which would place Blanca for those 10 days in the mountains, and reduce hopes that it was found with life. "Where he was going. He came here, sure, as he told Olivia," says a relative to EL MUNDO, who concludes: "I just hope your hip is broken, have a little water to drink sips and let's find her alive, but it's getting harder and harder. "

How is the area?

Very complex. The bottom of the valley is full of roads, "but then there are small stream basins that reach several parts, which have a lot of vegetation and where you can not see a body three meters away," they explain in the Civil Guard. At the end, caves and cliffs in the Siete Picos area, where his family still believes that Blanca was going, "because it is the family's favorite area," says her sister Lola. The countdown continues.

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