A 77-year-old woman resident in the province of Turin was injured in a serious fall on the Sentiero degli Dei, the Path of the Gods, near the trail marker known as "mattonella 10."
The incident was reported on 2 October 2026 by local press covering the Sorrento Peninsula and Salerno area.
Rescue by helicopter
The Salerno 118 operations centre dispatched the HEMS helicopter and activated the Campania Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, CNSAS.
According to the two local reports, rescuers reached the woman, medically stabilized her at the scene, and then recovered her by helicopter winch because of the difficult terrain.
She was subsequently transferred to the San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona hospital in Salerno for treatment.
How the rescue unfolded
The reported sequence is relevant for understanding mountain-trail rescues in this area:
First, the regional 118 operations centre coordinated the response, sending both the helicopter service and the specialist CNSAS team. Second, stabilization took place before movement, rather than immediate transport. Third, recovery was by winch into the helicopter, a procedure the reports link directly to the difficult ground around the marker.
The reports do not say that a ground evacuation was attempted.
What remains unconfirmed
The available reports do not provide the woman's exact injuries, prognosis, or later medical condition. They also do not give precise trail coordinates for "mattonella 10" or confirm the exact municipal boundary where the fall occurred.
No official hospital or emergency-service bulletin was included in the validated research for this article.
A difficult section of a popular trail
The key practical point confirmed by both sources is terrain: even near a numbered trail marker, the ground was difficult enough to require a winch recovery rather than a simple carry-out.
Walkers on the Sentiero degli Dei should therefore treat marker points as location references for emergency calls, not as signs of easy access. In this case, the marker "mattonella 10" identified where help was needed and where the helicopter and CNSAS team intervened.
