A 51-year-old man who hiked on July 5 in Isère in the Dévoluy massif is dead, victim of a fall of several hundred meters. The body of the fifties was found Sunday evening at 2,400 m above sea level by the Republican Security Company (CRS) of Briançon, which was alerted to his disappearance by his wife.
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Originally from the Rhône, the man had undertaken the day before a steep loop close to mountaineering around the Obiou, a summit of the Dévoluy massif culminating at around 2,800 m above sea level. It would have fallen heavily on Sunday in the northwest face of the massif, said CRS Briançon, which discovered the body of the victim during a reconnaissance by helicopter.
3 other people died this weekend in the Alps
This weekend, the Alps were also bereaved by the deaths of three extreme sports practitioners. On Saturday, a 63-year-old man killed himself 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.
On Sunday, a woman in her thirties died after having fallen heavily while on a canyoning trip in the Chartreuse massif, near Grenoble (Isère). In Haute-Savoie, a 48-year-old man also died on Sunday while practicing paragliding at La Sambuy-Seythenex, a ski resort located south of Lake Annecy, near the border with Savoy.
