Tragedy in Valfurva: Mirko Olcelli, ski mountaineering promise, dies at age 18

Tragedy in Valfurva: Mirko Olcelli, ski mountaineering promise, dies at 18

Italian ski mountaineering è shaken by the death of 18-year-old Mirko Lupo Olcelli, a promising athlete of the Alta Valtellina Ski Club, the Central Alps and the Italian national under-20 ski mountaineering team. The accident è occurred Monday morning along the section of State Road 300 in the municipality of Valfurva, Alta Valtellina.

A 16-year-old girl traveling with the victim, who was promptly transported to Sondalo hospital, was also injured in the crash, which also involved another car.

"A very serious mourning has struck the winter sports family – è the statement of Fisi -. As a result of a car accident that occurred in the early hours of Monday, Dec. 18, lost his life Mirko Lupo Olcelli, 18, a member of the Alta Valtellina Ski Club and a leading member of the national under-20 ski mountaineering team".

"Last weekend Olcelli had participated in San Martino di Castrozza in the mixed relay race of the Coppa Italia Giovani concluded in fifth place, and in the first weeks of competitions he had taken good placings in the World Cup category. The Italian Winter Sports Federation, President Flavio Roda and the Federal Council huddle around the Olcelli family in these hours of enormous grief".