Murari: ‘It stops us from digging’. The Di Marcello family: ‘The search for Marco has been suspended’
The search for mountaineers still missing in Nepal, on the Yalung Ri glacier, has been suspended. One of the members of the expedition, Manuel Munari, wrote it on the Avia Mea Facebook profile. “Unfortunately, we have to announce that the Yalung Ri mission has been suspended due to the heavy presence of super-compact snow, making excavation impossible at the moment,” reads the latest update. “We will monitor the conditions – continues the message – and evaluate the options in the future”.
“We had the bad news that the search for Marco was suspended this morning by one of the coordinators of the rescue teams, Manuel Munari, with whom we are in telephone contact.” Speaking is Gianni Di Marcello, the brother of the 37-year-old biologist from Teramo who has been missing since last Monday at high altitude, after an avalanche that overwhelmed the international expedition of mountaineers headed for the Dolma Khang peak (6,332 metres) and which caused the death, among the seven victims, of the Abruzzo photographer Paolo Cocco from Fara San Martino, in the province of Chieti.
In addition to Marco Di Marcello, another Italian, the South Tyrolean Markus Kirchler, the German Jakob Schreiber and the Nepalese Mere Karki and Padam Tamang are also missing.
“According to what we understand – reported Gianni Di Marcello – the weather conditions for the flight are not ideal and the snow on which the rescuers are working is very compact and full of rocky debris which is difficult to dig through”.
