Overview

• The hiker set out from Passo Tre Croci on trails 242 (Via Ferrata Berti) and 241 despite English-Italian signs marking them closed for rockfall risk.
• Volunteer rescue teams dispatched a helicopter around 15:30, locating him after two passes due to low clouds and extracting him uninjured.
• The regional health service issued a €14,000 invoice under non-EU rescue fee rules, a sum far above the few hundred-euro charge for Italian or French nationals.
• New multilingual warning panels have been installed and drone and ground surveillance heightened across dozens of trails shut after last week’s major rockslides and evacuations.
• Club Alpin Italien reports two months of continuous rockfall in the Belluno sector, prompting unprecedented closures and stricter geological risk management.