Two daughters of the legendary Argentine climbers who died at the icy top 40 years ago gained their backpack from the place – find a movie about the camera inside, which allowed them to look at some of his latest impressions.
Guillermo Vieira was 44 years old when he died in 1985, while descending into Argentina Tupungat -Lava -Kupal, one of the highest peaks in America.
Last year, his backpack was spotted on the slope of the mountaineer Gabriela Cowallar, who examined him and contacted the daughters of Vieira Guadalupe, 40, and Azul, 44.
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In February this year, three came out with four other guides and two directors in 11-day travel to return the bag from a height of about 6100 meters (20,000 feet)-a 6-600-meter volcanic peak.
“In my family, the word” mountain “has always been forbidden. My mother does not want anything to do with the opening of this backpack. This is a family that has been disturbed by grief, void,” AFP said.
“It seemed crazy to me, and I didn't want to go back to the volcano where he died. But how the months had passed … I started to weaken and started thinking,” Why not? “
Inside the woman's backpack found a jacket, a sleeping bag, a water bottle, aspirin, vitamin C tablets, a set of knives and two rolls of the film belonging to their father.
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“Spiritual, it felt like a greeting, for example,” I'm still here, I exist. You're not one, “Azul said.
“This slope is never scalable again”
Experience also allowed her to learn more about the person she had never received.
“My mother never told us who he was. We knew he died in the mountains and that he was a mountaineer but not much more. So, it was like opening his story again, how to say … We have a father who had life, history. So it was like discovering it again.”
Photos taken from another movie found in the same Cavallor backpack a year earlier showed that Vieira and his partner Leonard Rabal, 20 years old, were the first climbers to reach the top of Tupungata on the east side – the most difficult route.
“This slope is never scalable again,” said AFP Cavallara, who lives at the foot of Tupungat in the city of the same name.
“The fact that they (Vieira and Rabal) has true historical value in Argentine and international mountaineering,” she added.
As depending on Smithson's institutionTupungato is a Pleistocene Stratovolkana, closed by the Dome Lava complex, which is about 800,000 years. According to modern history, there were no registered eruptions Andani Geologywho noted that “the events of the collapse and the sector are probably” on certain parts of the mountain.
The bodies of Vieira and the slave were removed shortly after death.
Azul and her sister said they would donate their father's belongings in an attempt to share “part of Argentine history of mountaineering” with others.
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The Vieira's search for things happened a few months after the next possession of the deceased climber was found in South America. Last summer, an American mountaineer Bill Stampfla was preserved – which disappeared 22 years ago, scale the snow peak in Peru – was found Mountaineers. A thigh The driver's license of Stampfl, a couple of solar glasses, a camera, a voice recorder and two decomposition of $ 20 is held. The gold wedding ring was still on the left hand.