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«I always thought that we knew these mountains like the palm of our hand, that they were our house, a place to enjoy, kind, beautiful. Now, looking for Blanca , I realize the enormity this is. When we started looking for her, I thought it would not be so difficult to find her, because we know this so well ... However ... ».
However, the Fernández Ochoa family member who made these reflections to EL MUNDO suddenly realized that the Sierra de Guadarrama, where the family of eight brothers grew up, was large, even oceanic, full of vericuetos, paths, caves , trails, hills. A haystack in which to look for a small needle, Blanca.
So close was the relationship of the Fernández Ochoa with these mountains, which shine under the usual sun of the place, that for the search the brothers provided the Police with a kind of family album: all the photos that Blanca and her brothers had taken In recent years in these places of torrential beauty. Geolocated photos, which allowed to draw a sentimental map and place the preferences of the disappeared.
This is La Peñota, the mountain where Blanca has been found.
In the end, everything was more prosaic. The mountain that Blanca loved had no more consideration with her than to make it her own when the time came, and her body, probably traveled by the animals of La Peñota, appeared little recognizable, already merging with nature itself. It all ended at a stroke, consuming the last hopes of the family, which were already burning like a dim candle - only David , his son, refused to accept that it had been too long - when a canine patrol shot out of the command post towards 13.30 on Wednesday and, smelling the toast, a swarm of cameras began to look for signs of yes, that something had finally appeared.
White Camp (let's call it that) had been for almost four days, just where Fernández Ochoa's car appeared, a want and I can't fill, of course, good intentions and positive energy. The Police and the Civil Guard, with their usual struggle to catch and score points, oscillated between loyal collaboration and getting each one chest on their side. The family, more educated and impossible patients, attended to the whole world and refused, even necessarily, to discouragement. The TV teams, devouring everything and asking for more and more. The Alpedrete City Hall official who suddenly appeared with 100 bologna sandwiches. Cirilo , the one at the bar, befriends the former skier, offering help and rods. All that bonhomia of the people of Fernández Ochoa went hand in hand with the society of the show and its doubtful voracities.
The end was the horribly expected anticlimax. David, Blanca's son, crossing exhausted before the cameras surrounded by civil guards. Adrián Federighi , brother-in-law, host for nine months, refusing to admit reality. The family, who feared that Blanca had left forever almost from the moment she disappeared (whatever that means), bleeding in the open. As a backdrop, but really protagonist, the mountain, the impressive mountain, which sees everything and silences it - also that it had Blanca -, with that majesty that suddenly becomes inhuman, unbeatable, impassable, and that took to your daughter.
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