A 49-year-old seasonal worker who hiked with friends in Savoie, in the town of Val d'Isère, died on Tuesday April 20 after being jostled by an avalanche which caused him to fall from a rocky ridge, emergency services said. Mountain.
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The accident occurred shortly before 12:30 p.m. at an altitude of 2950 meters under the Signal de l'Iseran, in the Alps Grées massif, while the 40-year-old was going downhill on a splitboard, a snowboard that can be dismantled in two parts to be shod on the climb like a pair of touring skis.
According to the rescuers of the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) of Modane, in charge of the investigation, the man was swept away, without being buried, by an avalanche which was triggered in his passage, then fell in 'a rocky ridge. “
He fell from a height of five meters and landed badly. He died of his injuries despite the first aid provided by his comrades,
”said mountain rescue services.