He fell badly while walking on a path in Cala Luna , in the stretch in the territory of Dorgali .
A hiker from Cagliari was walking along a steep scree slope that points towards the crystalline sea when, after losing his balance, he stumbled and broke his ankle. He remained motionless on the dirt road, cared for by his three fellow adventurers who did their utmost to help him and, in the meantime, called 118 .
The operations center in Sassari received the call shortly before 4 pm and immediately notified the crew of Echo Lima 1 based in Olbia . Having taken off at 4 pm, the Areus aircraft arrived on site half an hour later . The intervention proved to be complex, due to the inaccessible location where the patient to be rescued was located.
Using the winch, one of the crew members lowered himself onto the trail and the hiker was recovered with the evacuation triangle. A quarter of an hour into the flight, the helicopter landed on the landing pad adjacent to the San Francesco hospital in Nuoro , where the medical staff performed all the instrumental tests on the man, which revealed a fractured malleolus. The hiker will be out of action for several weeks.