A mountain information captured what could also be a mountaineer’s final interplay with humanity earlier than his demise. The person was trying to climb the Matterhorn on the border of Italy and Switzerland with out correct gear. The mountaineer later fell to his demise. In actual fact, three mountaineers died on the mountain within the span of only one week.
Eukeni Soto was guiding a shopper on the Matterhorn on August 16 once they got here throughout a mountaineer who seemed to be carrying microspikes and carrying a day pack. The person was ascending the mountain solo. The information and shopper had already summited and have been on their descent once they crossed paths with the solo mountaineer.
“As regular on the Hornli Route, I used to be downclimbing and guiding my shopper at a speedy tempo, however I couldn’t assist stopping in my tracks for a second and movie the climber with my cellphone,” Soto instructed ExplorersWeb.
Soto later posted the video to Instagram as a warning to others earlier than he knew the person’s destiny. He wrote: “A man climbing the fastened ropes on Matterhorn with out gear. It’s wonderful to see how far this man has come with none gear or data.”
Sadly, the mountaineer didn’t make it again down the mountain.
An official police report (translated from German into English) reads:
“On August 16, 2024, a mountaineer fell from the Matterhorn in Zermatt, sustaining deadly accidents. At round 2:40 p.m., a 3rd occasion reported the autumn of a mountaineer who was descending from the summit of the Matterhorn by way of the Hörnligrat. For causes nonetheless unknown, the individual, who was presumably climbing alone, fell at an altitude of round 4,200, round 800 meters over the north face onto the Matterhorn glacier beneath.”
A Controversial Video, A Lethal Mountain
In Soto’s video, you possibly can see the person climbing a hard and fast rope, glancing again on the different mountaineers. Within the background, somebody is saying a vulgar phrase in Spanish expressing irritation and disappointment within the man’s selections.
Watch it right here (warning: vulgar language in Spanish):
Within the feedback part of Soto’s publish, many individuals specific their outrage that the person was climbing with out crampons, a helmet, and even rope. Some individuals requested Soto in regards to the end result, and he hyperlinks to articles asserting the demise of a solo climber from the identical day he took the video.
This mountaineer was the third one that died on the Matterhorn that week. The opposite two climbers had set out from the Hörnli Hut on the morning of August 14 and didn’t return. A search occasion found they’d each died after falling 1,000 meters.
Zermatt: Tödlicher Sturz am Matterhorn
Am 14. August 2024 sind zwei Bergsteiger am Matterhorn über tausend Meter in die Tiefe gestürzt. Sie zogen sich dabei tödliche Verletzungen zu.https://t.co/5QsnqpbRwJ pic.twitter.com/wzOrw4rYQL
— Polizei Wallis (@PolizeiWallis) August 16, 2024
