In the mountains, accidents have multiplied this weekend. Two extreme sports practitioners, a man who was flying a paraglider and a young woman who was on a canyoning trip, died accidentally on Sunday in two different massifs of the Alps, we learned from the mountain rescue services.
In Isère, a woman in her thirties died Sunday afternoon after having fallen heavily while on a canyoning outing in the Chartreuse massif, near Grenoble.
The accident took place shortly before 3:45 p.m. at Quaix-en-Chartreuse in the Infernet canyon, a gorge nearly a hundred meters deep popular with practitioners in the region.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the young woman would have dropped thirty meters for an indefinite reason while she was in the last position of a group supervised by an instructor.
The hypothesis of a “bad manipulation” is privileged, indicated the Republican Security Company (CRS) of Isère, to which an investigation was entrusted to determine the circumstances of the drama.
The third accident in a weekend
In Haute-Savoie, a 48-year-old man also killed himself Sunday while practicing paragliding at La Sambuy-Seythenex, a ski resort located south of Lake Annecy, near the border with Savoy, said the gendarmes.
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Contacted, the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) of Annecy, in charge of the investigation, did not wish to comment on the circumstances of the accident.
Saturday, the Alps were also bereaved by the death of a 63-year-old man who died in a hang-gliding accident on a landing area in the town of Passy, located at the foot of the Mont Blanc massif , in Haute-Savoie.
According to the Chamonix High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM), the sixty-something man “dived and fell twenty meters” after a wing of his hang glider had caught a tree while trying to land.