The Zaragoza mountaineer Fernando Sánchez Grassa, 44, has died climbing the Himlung peak (7,126 meters) of the Himalayas in Nepal. This has been confirmed by sources from the embassy of this Asian country through the Government Delegation in Aragon. According to these sources, the mountaineer was accompanied by two other Zaragozans, the brothers Juan Carlos and Jesús Del Cerro.

One of them went down to give notice of the accident to the Nepalese authorities, while the other was treated by the rescue team at the scene of the event due to hypothermia. Embassy sources reported that the procedures for repatriation of the deceased's body are already underway. The injured man has been taken to a hospital to be treated for his hypothermia.

According to 'The Himalayan Times', Sánchez Grassa died in Camp III, back from the summit, 7,126 meters. This newspaper says that Fernando alerted during the descent that he was affected by snow blindness and describes the apinist as an experienced mountain. Sánchez Grassa and the Del Cerro brothers were part of an eight-member expedition. The other five decided to leave on the rise.

Retained in Iraq

It happens that Fernando Sánchez Grassa, a resident of the Zaragoza neighborhood of Torrero, was arrested and subsequently released, in May 2017, by peshmergas of the KDP, the Kurdish party in Iraq. The event occurred specifically in Erbil, in the north of the country.

He was held a week with a group of international fighters linked to the YPG (Popular Protection Units) militia, which belongs to the Syrian Kurds, when they returned to their respective countries after fighting against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.

The journey he made was to cross from the area of ​​Rojava, located in northern Syria, through South Kurdistan in the direction of Erbil, from where they were to depart. There they were retained by the KDP after their visa expired.

Sánchez Grassa was closely linked to movements that defend nature and ethnological heritage. He led a campaign in which some 15,000 signatures were collected to produce a mountain law in Aragon.

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