1. Residential Customers
  2. Business Customers
  3. About Swisscom
  4. blue News
  1. My Swisscom
  3. myCloud
  4. TV
  5. Phone book
EN
Weather
  1. blue News
  1. Entertainment
  1. Sport
Swisscom Services
  1. Phone Book
  3. Web TV
  4. My Swisscom
Swisscom Apps
  1. Swisscom blue News & E-Mail
  2. Swisscom blue TV
  3. Swisscom blue Cinema
  4. Swisscom myCloud
Language
  1. English
  2. Deutsch
  3. Français
  4. Italiano

Via Alta Hiker falls to his death in Ticino

SDA

24.7.2024 - 05:33

The Via Alta is a challenging 200-kilometre alpine hike that leads along the Vallemaggia mountain range, which separates the Valle Maggia from the Verzasca Valley.
The Via Alta is a challenging 200-kilometre alpine hike that leads along the Vallemaggia mountain range, which separates the Valle Maggia from the Verzasca Valley.
Picture: Keystone/Ti-Press/Alessandro Crinari

A 60-year-old hiker fell around a hundred meters down the Via Alta in the Verzasca Valley near Lavertezzo TI on Tuesday afternoon and died.

Keystone-SDA

24.07.2024, 05:33

24.07.2024, 05:36

No time? blue News summarizes for you

  • A 60-year-old hiker fell around a hundred meters down the Via Alta in the Verzasca Valley near Lavertezzo TI on Tuesday afternoon and died.
  • The man from the Bellinzona region was on the route with a group.
  • The reasons for the fall were not clear in the evening.
Show more

Rescue workers were only able to recover his body, as the Ticino cantonal police reported in the evening.

The accident occurred at around 2,400 meters above sea level. The man from the Bellinzona region was traveling with a group on the route. During the rescue operation, a helicopter flew 17 people from the hiking group down to the valley. The cantonal care team looked after them. The reasons for the fall were not clear by the evening.