The 2nd Engineer Sappers Regiment of the Army has been engaged since last Monday in the "Adamello 2023" operation, a delicate reclamation activity that sees the bomb squad of the Alpine troops engaged in surface research, collection and subsequent neutralization of numerous artillery shells from medium and large caliber dating back to the First World War which, with the summer heat, are resurfacing between 2.500 and 3.000 meters above sea level on the Adamello mountain range.
The 2nd Engineer Sappers Regiment of Trento is a unit of the Alpine troops specialized in operating also on glaciers and in the high mountains, which for several years has been engaged in the summer on the Adamello and Brenta mountain ranges in the delicate search and reclamation operation of numerous war remnants. This activity is possible only when the melting of the snow and ice allows an effective search for the bombs which, after more than a century of avalanches and glacial movements, today resurface scattered over very large and particularly impervious surfaces. In the course of 2 years of searches, about 1000 bombs were collected and destroyed.
To carry out the blasting of the 900 shells recovered in the summer of 2022 alone, it took about a month of activity at a nearby suitable quarry.
A demanding activity in terms of personnel which in fact involves some helicopters of the 4th "Altair" regiment of the Army Aviation, personnel of the Alpine rescue of the carabinieri, further helicopters made available by the autonomous province of Trento, the Tridentine Mountaineering Society and the CMilitary body of the Italian Red Cross.
