(ANSA-AFP) - ROME, AUG 1 - Two Austrian mountaineers have
died while attempting to summit a 2,500-metre (8,200-foot) peak
in Italy's Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the
Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) bordering Austria said
Thursday. Missing since Wednesday, the two men were both Alpine
rescuers from the southern Austrian city of Villach close to the
Slovenian and Italian borders, the rescue service said on
Facebook. They were scaling the "Cima di Riofreddo", whose peak
culminates at more than 2,500 metres, when they fell. After
calling the missing mountaineers and receiving no reply,
relatives alerted the rescuers who deployed a helicopter to the
scene. Their bodies were found dangling from their climbing
ropes on Thursday morning, still partially anchored to the
mountainside at an altitude of around 2,000 metres, the rescuers
added. (ANSA-AFP).
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