A hiker in her sixties died on Thursday May 12 after falling from the famous cliffs of Étretat (76) at the time of a photo, we learned from the gendarmes on Friday.
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At the top of the cliff, the victim wanted to take a photo and, holding out her phone, she then stumbled into the void
,” a gendarme told AFP.
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She was accompanied by her husband and two other couples.
The group was hiking
, ”said the same source.
At the beginning of January, a 24-year-old woman had also died after falling from these cliffs at the time of a photo.
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She allegedly backed up accidentally, either taking a picture or having her picture taken,
” the gendarmes said at the time.
In 2013, a hiker in her thirties killed herself after a fatal fall from these cliffs while photographing the site.