Since 4 July, a 30-year-old Italian aid worker, Alberto Fedele, has disappeared in Peru. The man was on a trip to a mountain lagoon near Cusco, at 4,800 meters above sea level. It seems that he was in the company of a girl and had told her he wanted to leave early in the morning to return to the base in the evening. He had no special mountain equipment or provisions to make it through the night.
Local experts have confirmed that the area is very inaccessible and high (path at over 4,500 meters), in the middle of winter, elements that could have caused some form of illness, and the path has no telephone coverage.
The rescue teams are engaged in research, for now without finding traces of Italian.
(Unioneonline / ss)
