Mountain climber declared dead after falling into a crater on one of the highest peaks in Peru

A Brazilian upland climber was recovered lifeless aft falling into nan crater of Peru's 4th highest mountain, his family said.

Marcelo Delvaux had been missing since June 30 erstwhile he started to descend from Nevado Coropuna successful Arequipa.

Delvaux, considered by galore arsenic nan champion mountaineers successful Brazil, didn't past nan autumn into nan crevasse of nan mountain, which is 21,079 feet supra oversea level, his sister told CNN Brasil.

The family hired master guides who joined nan constabulary successful searching for Delvaux connected July 4 earlier nan hunt was called disconnected Sunday.

'When they sewage up there, they recovered his poles stuck successful nan crystal and nan ace open, which is wherever he fell and astir apt died instantly,' Delvaux sister, Patricia Delvaux, said. 'Because he was incapable to activate nan GPS's 'SOS', we presume he fell there. The ace is very deep, very difficult to execute a rescue.'

Pedro Hauck, a hiker and friend of Marcelo Delvaux, wrote connected a blog that he astatine nan upland grounds connected June 25 and group up his campy shelter and went connected respective walks while yet taking a different way to scope nan southwestern extremity of nan Nevado Coropuna.

'More method and much beautiful than nan normal one. Very overmuch for illustration Marcelo, who doesn't travel normal paths and tries to make his own, avoiding celebrated places,' Hauck said.

Hauck said that Delvaux reached Nevado Coropuna's acme astir 3pm section clip and started his trek down astir half hr later.

But nan GPS stopped transmitting his location aft he made it 328 down nan upland and started to registry points that were adjacent each other, akin to what occurs erstwhile nan awesome is being lost.

'What if Marcelo had dropped nan GPS and it had rolled into a crevasse? That could explicate why he hadn't contacted anyone,' Hauck wondered.

Marcelo Delvaux's trekking poles were located Saturday morning. The hunt and rescue squad spotted his shelter and instrumentality astatine nan guidelines of nan upland and footprints were discovered astir nan separator of nan separator of nan mountain's crater.

'Perhaps connected nan measurement up, he utilized them to awesome nan champion spot to cross, but connected nan measurement down he ended up losing support and our friend vanished into its cold, acheronian interior,' Hauck wrote.

The Nevado Coropuna was 1 of 150 mountains that Marcelo Delvaux conquered alongside nan Himalayas and Andes.

The upland features 7 peaks and takes astir 3 to 4 days to climb.

Marcelo Delvaux first attempted to climb the Nevado Coropuna successful 2015 and returned successful 2016 and made it to nan apical of 4 of nan 7 summits. He went backmost successful July 2023, but had to abort nan travel aft encountering an area that was afloat of crevasses.

He lived successful nan southeastern Brazilian metropolis of Belo Horizonte, but often spent astir nan twelvemonth hiking and moving arsenic circuit guideline successful nan Andes.