A 71-year-old hiker fell deadly on Tuesday from the summit of Mont de Grange in the Chablais massif in Haute-Savoie.
The man fell, for unspecified reasons, around 12 noon. He traveled an aerial path in the town of Châtel at an altitude of some 2,400 meters with his wife. She is unharmed, said the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) of Chamonix.
The gendarmerie platoon intervened, in vain. He then went to the Middle Glacier, in the Mont-Blanc massif, where a rope of mountaineers had been struck by a fall of stones when descending the Aiguille d'Argentière, according to Dauphiné Libéré.
The gendarmes found a 25-year-old young woman who was allegedly slightly injured in the leg. The man who accompanied him, aged 45, was reportedly seriously injured in the chest without his life being in danger. They were rescued thanks to the gendarmerie helicopter and with the help of a doctor from the Mont-Blanc Country Hospitals.