Two Argentine mountaineers died climbing a summit in Peru

Two mountaineers The Argentinians died while climbing Caraz mountain, 6025 meters high, in the Andes of Peru. Local police reported Monday that their bodies were found. Their relatives sent them back to social networks. "New heights in height, you are in the heart of all"wrote the father of one of them.

These are Ian Schwer and Juan Pablo Cano, two young people who had decided climb on an ice wall Snow White Cordillera, in the Ancash region, as a result of a death accident.

"We managed to save the bodies of the two mountaineers who died after trying to climb the snowy Caraz," he told the agency. AFP Major Gilmer Torres, of the high mountain police of the city of Huaraz. Police report says Argentines are dead "when they tried to climb the ice wall of the snow yielded one of his anchors, so they fell into the void. "

The bodies were saved Sunday and taken to the morgue of the town of Huaraz, chief of the region, 400 km north of Lima. The president of the House of High Mountain Guide of this city, Rafael Figueroa, said that Argentineans were reported. missing on Friday, the day they were to return from their expedition.

"It's a very technical mountain, which means that it takes a lot of preparation to climb it, not only because of the height but also because of the weather," Figueroa explained. .

Willy Schwer, Ian's father, used his personal gutter on Facebook to say goodbye: "Until always dear sonyou have made of your life an enormous cult for friendship and fellowship. We all honor your example. We will miss you forever. He added: "New heights, at the top, you follow in the hearts of all. New worlds of light shelter you"

With this case, they are already 12 mountaineers who died in the Ancash Glaciers in the last two years. In January, an avalanche of snow buried three Spaniards and a Peruvian guide in the snow-covered Mateo (5150 meters) of the Cordillera Blanca.