"Paragliders at 12 noon." A few seconds after taking off from the Versoud aerodrome, near Grenoble, the Dent de Crolles and the cliffs overhanging Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet parade in the distance through the windows of the H145 helicopter from Dragon 38. The ballet of colored sails twirling in front of the limestone façades celebrates the end of a long confinement of two months preventing hikers from traveling in the mountains. A period during which the red and yellow helicopter of this Isère rescue unit had only flown to carry out rotations linked to the management of the Covid-19 epidemic. But the activity to resume more beautifully with the May bridges and sunny days.
The call arrived five minutes earlier. A man became unwell while hiking. "It is near a meadow, at an altitude of 1500 meters in the Bauges massif, towards the village of Arith", informs us Richard Trivière, the pilot of the group of helicopters of civil security (GHSC), at
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