The 35-kilogram walnut wood cross that a young Frenchman placed on the summit of Aneto on May 9, following the disappearance in April of the original aluminum piece that was located at the top in 1951, has been vandalized.
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Two mountaineers found it this Friday while ascending the peak
Some mountaineers discovered the cross this Friday on the left side of the Llosas ridge while ascending the highest peak of the Pyrenees via the Estasen corridor area. They suspect that someone threw it down early Friday afternoon, when at the summit, located at 3,404 meters altitude, there were no mountaineers who could record or see the action.
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The removal of the symbol occurs just two weeks after it was placed by the young man, only 18 years old, who recorded the ascent with the cross on his back in a video, and more than a month after the original was torn off. The main hypothesis is that someone sawed it off and threw it down the mountain whole or in several pieces.
