Overview
- The avalanche struck a group of six ski tourers around 1 p.m. on Dec. 29 on Pico Tablato above Panticosa, killing three and partially burying a fourth who was rescued with hypothermia.
- The dead include pediatrician and mountain-weather author Jorge García Dihinx and his partner, identified in local reports as Natalia Román, along with a mountaineer from the Basque Country.
- Two uninjured members of the group alerted authorities, triggering a search by mountain rescue teams from Panticosa, Jaca and Huesca supported by a Guardia Civil helicopter.
- Aragón’s interior minister described a typical winter slab release with unstable layered snow and wind-transported deposits breaking and sliding downslope.
- Officials cited differing danger assessments that day—AEMET’s level 2 versus local reports of level 3—and renewed cautions for backcountry travel alongside the new monitoring plan.