A little Christmas miracle. Saturday December 18, Ottavia Piana, a 32-year-old Italian speleologist, left to explore the Bueno Fonteno cave, near Bergamo. But at the end of the day, alert was given that the young woman had fallen and was injured. “159 technicians from the national alpine rescue corps, from 13 Italian regions”, as well as 6 doctors and 8 nurses, then took turns day and night to try to pick up the injured adventurer.
A mission that they, through determination, successfully accomplished. Wednesday, December 18, “at 2:59 a.m. (1:59 a.m. GMT) the rescuers reached the exit” of the cave “with the stretcher on which the injured speleologist was,” rejoiced the Alpine rescue team. Back on the surface of the earth, Ottavia Piana was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Bergamo. Her first words were, “Let my boyfriend know I’m okay.” The caver suffers from multiple fractures.
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A complicated rescue
The rescue took 81 long hours, as the cave had narrow passages that did not allow the transport of a stretcher, so it was necessary to use explosive microcharges to widen these bottlenecks before transporting the caver. “We showed him messages from his friends” on our phones to improve his morale, said one of the rescuers, quoted by the daily “Corriere della Sera”.
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The young caver had fallen in the same cave about a year and a half ago and fractured her leg at the time. And the same doctor, Leonardo Sattin, who had rescued her during the first fall, found himself at her side again this time. “Doctor, we know each other,” she told him, according to her story in the same daily.
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