A 65-year-old American, wanted since Thursday in the Mont-Blanc massif, was discovered dead Friday August 6, AFP learned from mountain rescue, confirming information from the regional daily
Le Dauphiné Libéré
.
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This man did not show up at the Goûter refuge on Thursday evening, where he had a reservation.
After a day of research, the gendarmes of the PGHM of Chamonix found his body at the bottom of a crevasse, at an altitude of about 4,500 meters, on the access road to Mont-Blanc, according to the same source.
A mountaineer from South Korea has also been missing in the massif since Tuesday.
The prefecture of Haute-Savoie warned on Friday against "
the lack of technical mastery
", not deeming "
unreasonable
" that "
apprentice mountaineers
" venture into the ascent of Mont-Blanc, even by the route normal, without being supervised by a professional mountain guide.
