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Alps: two people died during a hike

2021-07-30T15:45:34.885Z


Two people died Thursday in falls that occurred during hikes in the Alps, in Isère and in the Mont-Blanc massif, said ...


Two people died Thursday in falls that occurred during hikes in the Alps, Isère and in the Mont-Blanc massif, mountain rescue services said on Friday, July 30, confirming information from the regional daily

Le Dauphiné Libéré

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A 65-year-old man had a fatal fall of 400 meters near the Bossons glacier, which descends from Mont-Blanc.

Called around 2 p.m. Thursday by two members of his family, the rescuers of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) and the doctor dispatched by helicopter could only note the death of the tourist, on vacation in Chamonix.

The man fell, at an altitude of 1,900 meters, from a path "

very practicable

" but located on a ridge near the glacier.

"

As soon as you fall on the wrong side, it's very steep,

" said the gendarmes, who opened an investigation, as with every fatal accident.

A young 18-year-old victim in Isère

In Isère, it is a young woman of 18, in religious retreat in the Chartreuse de Currière, an isolated monastery in the massif of the same name north of Grenoble, who died on Thursday.

Left alone for a hike in the morning, she did not return for noon to the monastery, which called the gendarmerie of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, the town where this building has been installed since the Middle Ages in the middle of the forest. .

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Teams with dogs from the PGHM of Isère, as well as a helicopter, went in search of him, without success.

It is teams of gendarmes on the ground who found, in a steep place, the lifeless body of this young woman after an evening of research, around midnight between Thursday and Friday.

According to Le Dauphiné Libéré, the body was found at the foot of a rocky bar, which suggests an accident, according to the PGHM of Isère. An investigation, led by the Meylan gendarmerie, was opened.

Source: lefigaro

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