A woman from Tarragona of 53 years He has died this Wednesday for a avalanche When he practiced mountain skiing with five other people, who have been unharmed, in USGHULI (Georgia).
As a spokesman for the Federation of Catalonia Excress Entitiesto which several of the members of the expedition belonged, Alud has caught three of the mountaineers, two of whom have come out unharmed of the accident.
The expedition was integrated Six mountaineers Coming from different Catalan locations, which had contacted through common friends or acquaintances to travel to Ushguli to practice mountain skiing, so they formed a heterogeneous group of diverse ages, according to the same sources.
The snow avalanche has fallen on the six hikers when they descended, one by one and separated by a security distance, on the slope of the Ushguli mountain, one of the most altitude settlements of the Georgian Caucasus.
A popular destination
Ushguli has recently become a popular destination among mountain ski fansdespite the risks involved in mountaineering in the Caucasus, a Very steep and steep area That makes it lead to the avalanches, as explained to Efe Xavi Llongueras, high mountain guide and has directed several expeditions in the area.
“To the Caucasus you have to have a lot of respect”warns Llongueras, who remembers that they are mountains that usually accumulate Large amounts of snowwhich triggers the danger of avalanches.
Foreign Ministry sources have indicated that the diplomatic representation of Spain in Georgia is making the appropriate efforts with local authorities in order to provide all the consular assistance necessary to those affected.
For his part, the Government delegate in Catalonia, Carlos Prietohe has published a message in his X account in which he says he is following “carefully” the accident caused by the avalanche in Georgia that has affected the expedition of Catalan mountaineers.
Precisely, on March 11, a Catalan mountaineer died in the highest mountain in Armeniahe Aragotsfor an avalanche that affected eight other people, three of them firefighters of the Generalitat.
