88-year-old woman survives four days alonedrinking water from puddles and covering themselves with vegetation at night, in a forest near the Forcora Pass, in the province of Varese, northern Italy.
Giuseppina Bardelli, 88, disappeared on August 21 while looking for mushrooms in a forest with one of her children, from whom she was separated for a few minutes. The woman felt dizzy, fell and broke some ribs.which left him disoriented in the mountain, according to local media published on Tuesday.
The alarm was immediately raised and firefighters and civil protection volunteers began their search using helicopters and drones, but no one has managed to find her until this Sunday, four days after her disappearance.
Bardelli, originally from the province of Varese, He managed to survive because he knew the terrain very well.since he was very young he frequented the mountains and travelled with the Italian Alpine Club (CAI).
To survive, she explained after being rescued in good condition, I drank water from puddles and at night he covered himself with vegetation to fight the cold and assured that this helped him pray a rosary that he carried with him.
He also approached him on several occasions. a fox during the nights with whom the woman “started talking”“, one of his sons told the press.
“I did some damage,” the woman said when she found her children, after being rescued when she heard the voices of the search team and was able to call for help.
Bardelli is in hospital with several broken ribs, One of them slightly pierced his lungbut in good condition.
“I want to express my greatest gratitude to all the people, including the neighbors, who have been close to us and helped us,” his son Roberto told the media.
