FoxSports.com.au - Full StoryMarch 27, 2020 1:00pm
CHRISTY DORAN@christypdoran
Source: FOX SPORTS
At 2:10pm on March 7, 32-year-old Australian veterinarian Campbell Costello was drinking tea on the banks of the Rio Mayer with Argentinian locals when a menacing black cloud started to build down the valley towards the Chilean border.
Just over an hour later, emergency services were deployed.
“There’s a lake and the descent from this lake down through the mountains is quite treacherous, which was made even more treacherous by some really bad weather, we got smashed by a blizzard which resulted in multiple riders’ kit failing,” Costello says.
“I was sitting on a lookout, on a mountain overlooking the Chilean border with some locals drinking some tea and we were watching this storm build up in the background and I said, ‘Pardon my ignorance, but that doesn’t look good?’
“To which they ‘concurred’.
“Sure enough, my satellite phone went off and there were multiple distress calls up in the mountain from crew needing evacuation.”
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