Claudio Ghezzi, the climbing record holder who died to save a friend

They called him " the man of Grigna " because he had climbed more than 5,600 times to the top of one of the most famous mountains in the Lecco area.

That same mountain that today has become his grave. Claudio Ghezzi , a 69-year-old mountaineer from Missaglia (Lecco), well known above all for the record ascent to the summit of that mountain, died falling from a via ferrata on the Northern Grigna (2,410 meters high).

Ghezzi also had already arrived on the top of the mountain, at the Brioschi refuge, when, according to an initial reconstruction, he went back on the Carbonari ferrata to help a friend in difficulty .

There he lost his balance in an exposed point and fell for tens of meters . Nothing to do, any rescue attempt in vain, the via ferrata was then evacuated.

Ghezzi in the past had also been the protagonist of several expeditions to South America and Asia, between Nepal and Tibet .

(Unioneonline / L)