Rescue workers fought their way through a labyrinth of caves in Bergamo for days to save a seriously injured researcher. Around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, 32-year-old Ottavia Piana was carried out of the Abisso Bueno Fonteno cave.
According to the mountain and cave rescue team, the victim was brought out on a stretcher by helpers. A helicopter then took the woman to hospital. The researcher was trapped in the cave for more than three days.
‘She’s outside. Yes, we can say she is safe,” Alpine Rescue’s mobile operations center said in a news release. “In this final phase, Ottavia felt obliged to encourage us, to say that she wanted to get out. A sign that she was doing well,” doctor Corrado Camerini told La Repubblica newspaper.
Here you can see Piana being taken out of the cave:
The woman was in a lot of pain
The woman was very exhausted and in a lot of pain, said helper Giorgio Pannuzzo, describing the dramatic operation. The weather was also a problem: “If we had stopped, he would have suffered even more from the cold.” The researcher was greeted at the cave entrance by her friend. They were able to speak briefly before she was flown to hospital.
The scientist fell from a height of five to six meters around Saturday afternoon. It is said that a boulder gave way under their feet. “I was unlucky, I’m sorry,” Piana is said to have explained before her rescue.
Cave labyrinth of more than 50 kilometers
The rescue mission was extremely difficult. The enormous cave on the northern shore of Lake Iseo between Bergamo and Brescia, which was only discovered in 2006 – a huge labyrinth of underground passages, waterfalls and lakes – stretches for a total length of 50 kilometers.
Not even half of it has been studied. However, the rescuers managed to complete the last part of the cave labyrinth faster than originally planned.
Source: Krone
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