San Donato di Ninea, two hikers in difficulty on Cozzo Pellegrino. Arrived the firefighters and a helicopter from Salerno

John

By John

The providential intervention of the Fire Brigade as well as that of a helicopter started from Salerno to bring help to two hikers in difficulty between the Piano di Lanzo refuge (1351 mslm) and the summit of Cozzo Pellegrino was wantedwhich with its 1987 meters is the highest summit of the Orsomerso mountains, a massif which is part of the Pollino National Park.

One of them, however, was fortunately only slightly injured but the arrival of the rescue was necessary to implement their recovery. They both left from the refuge placed more downstream and the rescue operation, after the SOS alert that started from one of their mobile phones, lasted the entire afternoon of the festive day. The two tourists had first walked towards the Selletta del Monte La Cresta and from here they had been climbed uphill along the slope of the mountain also Calvia through a gully to get to the top where they then had difficulty continuing to the injury to one of the two.