Two ski hikers were swept away by an avalanche on Wednesday January 12 in Haute-Savoie and one of them did not survive, we learned from the Chamonix high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM).
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The two men were moving in the middle of the day in the Pic de la Corne sector, in the town of Saint-Jean-d'Aulps, near Thonon-les-Bains, when the avalanche started, he said. we specified.
The other hiker, who was not injured, was evacuated by the PGHM team from Chamonix who intervened by helicopter to rescue them.
