In the past few days, tourists around Cortina had to be rescued because they were wearing sneakers, at an altitude of 2,700 meters; their feet were frozen and they could no longer move them. They therefore called the Belluno rescue team, which left by helicopter, got dropped off nearby, reached the tourists on foot and escorted them to the nearest refuge. The President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, was furious and pointed out that the rescue team costs money, the helicopter costs money, and the tourists didn't deserve this waste of money, manpower, and time, because if they couldn't move their feet anymore, it was their own fault; they had gone up the mountain in sneakers that are made of cloth and don't keep warm at all. You don't go to the mountains without the proper equipment, whoever does it commits a serious imprudence and it's up to them to pay the consequences, Zaia added. Now the Veneto Region is thinking about a law that would ban hiking in the high mountains for people wearing sneakers.
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