A body found in an area of glaciers on Cerro Mercedario has been identified by relatives of Marta ‘Patty’ Altamirano
A body found in an area of glaciers on Cerro Mercedario, in northwestern Argentina, has been rescued and recognized by relatives of Marta “Patty” Altamirano, who died in a 1981 accident while climbing that mountain peak. According to local media, this Saturday, forensic examination has shown that the remains found correspond to a woman between the ages of 18 and 30. Altamirano was 20 years old at the time of the accident.
The body was found on January 24 by a group of climbers on Cerro Mercedario, in Argentina’s northwestern province of San Juan, at about 5,000 meters above sea level, in an area of glaciers. ‘Patty’ Altamirano had an accident when she fell through a crevice on the southern slope of this mountain in March 1981, when she was climbing with Corina, one of her sisters, and the Italian Sergio Bossini.
At that point, Corina and Bossini managed to get to where ‘Patty’ had fallen and confirmed that she had died, but when they descended and the rescue squads tried to access the place, a blizzard prevented them from finding the body.
“We recognized a lot of things about her. We are the four brothers and we could see that it is her,” Corina told local media after leaving the morgue in the city of San Juan with her three brothers. Corina assured that she was now “rested” after almost 42 years The woman assured that she has no doubts that it is the body of her sister, who would celebrate her birthday this Saturday, although it is still up to Justice to carry out the DNA comparison of the corpse with the genetic samples taken from her relatives.
Corina pointed out that they want to bring the body of “Patty” to the province of Tucumán so that her parents, who are already elderly, can say goodbye and then return to San Juan, to leave the ashes of Altamirano on the Mercedario Hill to leave.
Source: La Verdad
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