The suspects’ names are new, but the scheme is not. Mountain guides persuade their clients to take a rescue helicopter ride due to a supposed emergency. The “patients” are transported to specific hospitals. The insurance companies bear the cost. The alleged rescue flights are sometimes billed multiple times, and doctors issue inflated bills. And the…
Following the tragic death of German mountaineer Laura Dahlmeier on the 6,096-meter-high Laila Peak in the Karakoram in Pakistan, many are asking themselves: Should the body of the deceased be recovered after all? Or should her last will be respected? Laura had written in her will that her body should remain on the mountain if…
“I can’t tell you how many missions I’ve flown per day. It’s not the numbers that are important to me, but the quality of the missions.” This statement says a lot about Maurizio Folini‘s character. The 59-year-old Italian is not only a helicopter pilot with heart and soul, but also a passionate mountain rescuer. Folini…
