@thomas_huberbuam

The Rescue: The window was amazing. It was sunny, no wind and even in this patagonian heat, some bold climbers made some mindblowing achievments on the Torre range. It couldn't be better, until the moment, climbers saw an SOS light signal on the Torres, early in the morning of Friday 28th...and these dreamy days turned into a nightmare. An ice avalanche hit Tommy Aguilo and Korra Pesce high on Cerro Torre, while descending on the northface, after completing one of the best climbs in Patagonia. All the climbers in the valley began to strategize for a rescue opportunity. This set in motion, a chain reaction. We soon discovered that @fitzroyguide could abseil with a small piece of rope. Korra was badly injured and unable to move. Tommy made it to the Triangle snow field, 400 meters above the ground. I went to the base of Cerro Torre with a small team. @lindicluka and Luka Kranjnc made observations from the other side of the valley with binos. They gave information about the action on the wall via radio. Luckily @matteodellabordella and his team managed to descend from Cerro Torre via the compressor route and Swiss climber @rogerschaeli_alpinist arrived with the first group of the rescue team. We joined a fast evacuation team and climbed the lower part to the snowfield within three of hours. We reached Tommy before dark. He was injured, very weak but very clear in his mind and could still move on his feet. Tommy had an incredible desire to survive, this was nothing short of a miracle. I organized Tommy abseiling with @roberto_indio_treu , an Argentine member of the rescue team. Matteo and Roger tried to continue climbing to Korra. At the end we all pushed ourselves to the limit that night and we ended up going 30 hours non-stop without sleep. At the end we rescued Tommy but we couldn't reach Korra. It was an unbelievable team effort by Argentinian and international climbers, which can be rated far above a summit success on Cerro Torre. But in the end it remains the painful loss of a a great friend of our climbing community and climber @korra_pesce. At the end, 70 people, climbers of all nations and the rescue team of El Chalten were involved in these rescue.