A 72-year-old hiker found dead in the reliefs of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The man had gone for a getaway between hiking and mountaineering in the town of Saint-Geniez.

He had been missing since Tuesday evening after a report from his family. New technology, placed in the helicopter and which allows phones to be precisely geolocated, that the gendarmes ended up locating the hiker's body.