Man Accidentally Captured Girlfriend’s Final Moments Before She Fell 328ft During Hike

A guy has come forward following his girlfriend’s death as they were hiking up an Italian mountain.

Valentina Fino and Andrea Pedata hiked up the Pietra Tagliata pass in the Italian Apennines on Saturday, August 10.

But the 31-year-old nurse and her lover would not make it back down the mountain range together.

Hiking and scaling mountains were a favourite pastime for the duo.

Valentina Fino was hiking with partner Andrea PedataNEWSFLASH

They often took to the outdoors whenever Valentina had a day off from caring for cancer patients.

On Saturday, Andrea filmed Valentina as she ascended a rock face with remarkable speed, reportedly within seconds.

In the video, the nurse is seen wearing hiking boots, shorts, and a backpack with her hat secured to it.

She climbs the rock face confidently, using some wires for assistance.

Tragically, this would be the last footage Andrea ever took of his girlfriend, as a few hours later, disaster struck.

Valentina reportedly lost her footing and fell around 100 meters when the two were making their way up the Barbarossa route.

Andrea recalled: “I heard a scream and saw her fall.”

Valentina slipped and fellNEWSFLASH

Andrea quickly called for help and did everything he could to reach Valentina, but she had sustained fatal injuries.

Police and firefighter helicopters later arrived at the scene to recover her body.

Her funeral is scheduled to be held at the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta in Borgo Panigale.

Andrea resolved: “I’m destroyed, it hurts too much. We had many plans together about life and excursions.

“The only consolation is that she left doing what she loved most in the world.”

According to the Alpines Mountain Rescue Website, the Alpine and Speleological Rescue team intervened in 10,367 rescue missions in 2022.

This represents a 9.8 percent increase compared to 2021.

It explains: “The causes of the interventions are mainly due to three factors: the fall/slip (45.9 percent of the interventions), the inability during the activity carried out (26.3 percent) and the illness (13.7 percent) . Bad weather (3.7 percent) and anaphylactic shock (0.80 percent) follow with decidedly lower values.

“The activities most involved and causing accidents and related injuries are hiking (50.2 percent of cases) , mountain biking (9.0 percent, with a strong growth trend from year to year in the last 5 years) , alpine skiing (7.8 percent), classic mountaineering (5.4%) and mushroom hunting (4.2 percent). Several interventions were carried out during hunting activities (1.1 percent).”

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