How can we understand death in the mountains and the suffering of those who remain? This is what we were trying to explain in
an article published on March 26, 2023
.
The same day, the funeral of a 26-year-old young man was celebrated in Nancy.
A mountaineer and soldier in the air force, he had died a few days earlier in the Mont-Blanc massif, hit by a rock in a cliff above Chamonix.
His mother contacted us.
A year later,
Le Figaro
returns to his disappearance.
“It was the choice dictated by prudence
. ”
One Saturday in March, François-Xavier and his climbing companion Jean, a few years his senior, set off into the high mountains with one goal in mind: to climb Pointe Lachenal via the Pellissier gully, a rock and ice climbing route. approximately 200 meters above the Aiguille du Midi.
A route where certain belay points are already installed.
“I had just had my little girl, I didn’t want to do a race that was too demanding”
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