Unlike Navalcarnero, in Catalonia you either come from the sea or from the mountains (well, there are also those from Cerdanya). Some suffer from jellyfish and others from the summer plant: the perfidious monkshood, a very showy and wild but toxic flower – don’t get ideas – that shines around these dates from 1,500 meters above sea level.
As was to be feared, a hiker remains admitted to the Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona –out of danger– after having ingested this weekend the blessed wolfsbane in Vall de Núria, perhaps because it resembles wild celery (which does not It is born in supermarkets cut, cleaned and wrapped in plastic, as I believed to date). Already in 2018 a tragic case was registered: a man from the south of France died of poisoning after eating a salad with monkshood.
(Dear Jaume Collboni: do not trust yourself if you receive a bouquet of showy purple-blue flowers with an affectionate note, style: “Congratulations and hair to the sea!”, signed by Xavier Trias).
While those of the sea and the beach have a reputation for pachorras, vermouths and potbellies, lovers of the mountains are credited with righteousness. Who would you lend money to first? To a man who goes to Castelldefels on Sundays or to one who jogs uphill along the unpaved Pyrenean paths?
I hope that the intoxicated person recovers soon – the news is optimistic – and can resume that contact with nature and the silence that they tell so much about. In the event of a mishap, there is no color either. In the mountains, a professional comes to your aid while on the beaches curious people come, lifeguards from the Red Cross, word of mouth theorists and some adolescent who records and viralizes your breathing difficulties.
How to alert the climbers of the risk? I think they should talk to the collective of boletaires, waiting for the Generalitat to approve a protocol. The protocols are holy hands! On the beach, it’s not necessary: ??the Good Samaritan abounds –were the others that bad?– who calls out a jellyfish 200 meters away, in order to intimidate everyone present. sea ??or mountain Ways to die.
