Two French mountaineers, aged 25 and 27 and missing since Tuesday evening, were found dead on Wednesday August 4 at the end of the day in the Écrins massif (Hautes-Alpes), the CRS Alpes de Briançon announced on Thursday.
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It was a rope of amateurs who unscrewed in the ascent of a summit of Olan and who fell in the bergschrund, a crevasse at the foot of the walls of a glacier
", explains to AFP the Republican Security Company, confirming information from the Dauphiné Libéré.
The two mountaineers, a 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, lived in the region, according to the same source.
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It was the Olan refuge (in the town of La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar), from which the two victims had left early Tuesday, who had indicated that they would return after their ascent, which warned of their disappearance.
Four rescuers from the CRS Alpes de Briançon in a helicopter, accompanied by a doctor, then went in search of them before finding them "
at the bottom of the crevasse on Wednesday at the end of the afternoon
".
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They fell between 100 and 150 meters
” and “
the cause is accidental
,” the company concluded.