Mountain Bike Tragedy on a North Italian Trail
Three friends were riding their backyard trail system in Cumiana, Italy, on Sunday, January 31st, when one of them hit a tree head-first. Giuseppe Ernesto Mangone, 46, died shortly after the impact that took place on the popular Cresta trail.
According to another rider who descended a few minutes behind Magnone, the heli-ambulance was hovering above the trail roughly ten to fifteen minutes after he set off down the trail. An alpine rescue crew was also on the ground working to save him and ultimately carried his body from the forest.
It was a sorrowful Sunday for more than one person in the north-western region of Italy, as a nearby avalanche took the life of alpine skier, Maurizio Orlandin, of the same age on the same afternoon.
Man, 23, killed by avalanche
Avalanche toll in Alps near Cuneo rises to two
01 Febbraio 2021
CUNEO, FEB 1 - A 23-year-old Italian man died in a
Cuneo hospital overnight of injuries sustained when he was hit
by an avalanche in the Cunean Alps on Sunday, local sources said
Monday.
The man was named as Filippo Calandri.
He was struck by the avalanche at Acceglio, in the Valle Maira
valley.
A lieutenant teacher in an army technical school in Turin,
Calandri was originally from Bologna.
He was with a companion, who was unhurt, at an altitude of 2,300
metres, beyond the Gardetta mountain refuge, when he was