Two French mountaineers died after falling off course on Sunday, while hiking near the Chorde corridor in the town of Servoz (Haute-Savoie), we learned from the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) from Chamonix.
The accident occurred late Sunday morning on hard and slippery snow while the two victims,
"French and aged around forty"
, were in a steep and steep area, said the PGHM, confirming information from France Bleu Haute-Savoie.
“The numerous unscrewings”
“A witness, who was on the opposite slope, saw one of them slip and disappear”
and alerted the emergency services, according to the same source.
Four gendarmes, including a doctor, went to the scene and observed the deaths of the two men.
A helicopter from a private company was first mobilized to carry out reconnaissance, before a gendarmerie helicopter was used, aided by a winch.
An investigation was opened to try to establish the circumstances of the accident, under the authority of the Bonneville public prosecutor's office.
The conditions, with little but hard snow, are
“worthy of the month of April” and “make the snow particularly slippery and the slippage numerous”.
Emergency services intervened
“around ten times during this busy weekend”,
particularly because of the good weather, says the high mountain gendarmerie platoon.