Daughters Skali Mountain to download photos, bags and darts of the legendary father who died at the height of 40 years ago

Two daughters of the legendary Argentine mountaineer who died at an icy peak 40 years ago, pulled the backpack out of place – finding a camera movie that allowed them to look at some of his last experiences.

Guillermo Vieiro was 44 years old when he died in 1985 as he lowered Argentina Tupungat Lava Dome, one of the highest peaks in America.

Last year, his backpack on Padina was spotted by mountaineer Gabriela Cavallaro, who examined him and contacted Vieir’s daughter Guadalupe, 40, and Azul, 44.

In February this year, three left four other guides and two filmmakers on a 11-day trip to reclaim the bag from an altitude of about 6,100 meters (20,000 feet)-the volcanic peak of 6,600 meters.

“In my family, the word” mountain “was always forbidden. My mother wants nothing to find out this backpack. It’s a family that sadness broke, a void,” said Azul, who was only four years old when her father died, for AFP.

“Everything seemed crazy to me, and I didn’t want to go back to the volcano where he died. But as they went through for months … I began to mock and began to think,” Why not? “

Within backpacks, women found a jacket, a sleeping bag, a water bottle, aspirin, vitamin C tablets, a set of knives and two rings of the film that belonged to their father.

“Spiritual, he felt like a greeting, like,” I’m still here, there is. You’re not alone, “Azul recounts.

“That slope is never scared again”

Experience also allowed her to find out more about a man she never got the opportunity to know.

“My mother never really told us who he was. We knew he had died in the mountains and that he was a mountaineer, but not much more than that. So it was as a re -discovery of his story, as you say: Wait … We have a father who had life, history. So it was as if he was revealing it again.”

Photos taken from the second movie found inside the same Cavallaro backpack have shown that Vieiro and his partner Leonardo Rabal, 20, were the first climbers to arrive at the top of Tupungato – the most challenging route.

“That slope has never been scared again,” said Cavallaro, who lives at the foot of Tupungato in the city of the same name, he told AFP.

“What they (Vieiro and Rabal) achieved has real historical value in the Argentine and international mountaineer,” she added.

According to Smithsonian institutionTupungato is a pleistocene strato -volcano limited by the Lava Dome Complex, which is about 800,000 years old. In modern history there were no reported eruptions, according to Anda geologywhich noted that “the events of the demolition of the landslides and the sector were probably” on certain parts of the mountain.

The bodies of Vieir and Rabal were recovered shortly after they died.

Azul and her sister said she would donate his father’s things to share with others a “piece of Argentine hiking history.”

The travel of Vieir’s things comes only a few months after another dead climber were found at the height of South America. Last summer, preserved body of American mountaineer Bill Stamfl – who disappeared 22 years ago, while in Peru scolding the snowy peak – found climbing. AND purse He contained a Stampfl driver’s license, a pair of sunglasses, a camera, a voice record holder and two decaying accounts of $ 20. The golden wedding ring was still on the left hand.