The remains of Mario Conti, the mountaineer who climbed Cerro Torre in 1974, have been found
After months of searching, Conti's remains were discovered near his home, ending a long period of uncertainty and recalling his international mountaineering exploits.
The remains of Mario Conti, the Ragni di Lecco mountaineer who disappeared on 14 November 2023, at the age of 79, during a hike in the woods in the area of Mossini, the hamlet of Sondrio where he lived, were found and recognised today.
For months, the mountain rescue team, the Guardia di Finanza, the fire brigade, the Civil Defence, as well as the members of the Spiders had been searching for him. In a message today, they explained that he was found by chance by a hiker in a slope, about two kilometres from the house where he lived with his wife.
"It is difficult to say what emotions this news arouses in all of us," writes the mountaineering group, "It certainly renews the sense of sadness and lack, for a loss that can never be filled, but in other respects, it also represents the closing of a circle, the end of a time suspended between anxieties, doubts and unanswered questions.
"Mariolino" Conti roped up the Cerro Torre in Patagonia in 1974, and scaled the Lhotse in the Himalayas in 1975, and then summits on several continents, from Peru to Algeria.
