Double tragedy on the peaks of the Himalayas: five Italian mountaineers died in Nepal

The mountains of Nepal are once again tinged with blood. Two separate accidents, which occurred between Friday and Monday, resulted in the deaths of nine people, including five Italians. Local authorities confirmed that the expeditions were surprised by snowstorms and an avalanche that overwhelmed base camps in two different regions of the country.

Three Italians died on the Yalung Ri peak

The first disaster occurred on the Yalung Ri peak in central Nepal, at over 5,600 meters above sea level. An avalanche hit a group of twelve international climbers: seven of them didn’t make it. Among the victims there are three Italians, along with two Nepalese, a German and a Frenchman. Sherpa Phurba Tenjing, responsible for the organization Dreamers Destinationsaid he had “seen all seven bodiesThe other members of the expedition were rescued and transferred by helicopter to Kathmandu, exhausted but alive.

Two Italians died on Mount Panbari

The second accident occurred in western Nepal, where Alessandro Caputo and Stefano Farronato lost their lives while trying to climb Mount Panbari, a 6,887 meter peak between the districts of Gorkha and Manang. The Farnesina confirmed their deaths, explaining that contact with the two had been lost on October 31, after a heavy snowfall that isolated them at Camp 1.

Caputo, a ski instructor in St. Moritz, and Farronato, a forestry technician from Bassano del Grappa, were expert mountaineers. With them there was also Valter Perlino, expedition leader and Piedmontese veterinarian, who was saved by pure chance: an illness had forced him to stay at the base camp. It was he who raised the alarm and recounted the dramatic sequence of events.

Panbari is not a tourist mountain. It is a remote, little-explored peak, reached for the first time only in 2006. On social media, the mountaineers had documented their adventure in serene and passionate tones: “Everything OK. Today we reached 6,000 and then went down to Base Camp for a bit of rest“Words that today have a very different flavor.