A mountaineer in his 50s died this Friday after suffering a fall in Sedo de la Padierna, on the slope towards Vega de Liordes, within the municipality of Posada de Valdeón (León), according to data from the 112 Castilla y León Emergency Service.
The events occurred minutes before 1:53 p.m. this Friday, when the operations room of 112 Castilla y León received a call requesting assistance for a mountaineer who he had been rendered unconscious after suffering a fall in Sedo de la Padiernaa space that is part of one of the routes to Collado Jermoso.
The person making the call has explained that the injured man was in a steep area to which emergency teams could only access by air.
The emergency center notified the Civil Guard (COS) of León and the emergency coordination center (CCE) of the Junta de Castilla y León, from which the Rescue Group of the Junta de Castilla y León was mobilized, whose rescue helicopter left for Posada de Valdeón.
Already in place the rescue team descended from the helicopter, using a craneto the place where the injured mountaineer was, who was a man of about 50 years, and it was verified that, indeed, he had died.