The body of a Brazilian mountain climber, who’s been missing for over a week, was discovered in the crater of the fourth-highest peak in Peru, according to his relatives.
When Marcelo Delvaux began to descend from Arequipa’s Nevado Coropuna on June 30, he became lost.
His sister has informed that Delvaux, who was widely regarded as one of Brazil’s top mountaineers, did not survive the plunge into the mountain’s chasm at an altitude of 21,079 feet.
Prior to calling off the search on Sunday, the family had engaged professional guides who had joined the police in their hunt for Delvaux on July 4.
Patricia Delvaux, who is the sister of Delvaux, stated that when reaching the peak, rescuers discovered his poles wedged in the ice and a gaping hole through which he plummeted to his death. Because the GPS’s “SOS” function was inoperable, they presume he fell there. A rescue would be extremely challenging because of the depth of the chasm.
In a blog post, Marcelo Delvaux’s hiking companion, Pedro Hauck, detailed his arrival at the mountain grounds on June 25. He pitched his tent and embarked on hikes, ultimately diverting to reach the southern edge of the Nevado Coropuna.
According to Hauck, Delvaux reached the peak of Nevado Coropuna at about 3 p.m. local time and began his descent approximately thirty minutes later.
However, as he descended 328 meters down the mountain, the GPS ceased communicating his position and began to record locations that were geographically close to one another, a phenomenon analogous to signal loss.
The hope was that the GPS, not Delvaux, fell and rolled into a crevasse.
Marcelo Delvaux’s trekking poles were found on Saturday morning. While searching the mountain’s base, the rescuers found his tent and gear, and they also found footprints at the crater’s edge.
Along with the Himalayas and the Andes, Marcelo Delvaux scaled 150 mountains, including the Nevado Coropuna.
It takes around three or four days to climb the mountain, which has seven summits.
