The avalanche that yesterday trapped ten members of an expedition led by the well-known British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja on Broad Peak, the twelfth highest mountain in the world, at 8,051 meters, in Pakistan, has shocked the mountaineering world. Rescue teams recovered this morning “the bodies of Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy, from Oman, and Pur Bahaur Gurung, from Nepal,” according to the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), Major General Irfan Arshad, who confirmed this to Efe. The leg of a third person was also found, he added. Arshad indicated that search efforts will continue tomorrow, Saturday.

If Italy became in the collective imagination the country of great defenders, tough but elegant, capable of winning matches with intelligence even before strength, the footballer who best embodied that ideal was Franco Baresi. The legendary captain of Milan and the Italian national team died at 66, after a long illness that had progressively deteriorated his health in recent years. With him disappears one of the best defenders of all time and one of the great symbols of Italian sport.