A Spanish national, aged 14, died Monday after a fall during a mountain hike in Arette (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), we learned from the mayor and firefighters. The teenager had a
“fatal fall”
in the middle of the afternoon while hiking with her father on the Séguitte plateau, a sector of Arette located at around 1000 meters above sea level, explained the firefighters of the department.
According to Pierre Casabonne, the mayor of this Béarnaise commune, the victim
“slipped on a rocky bar”
in a
“very accident-prone area”
and fell
“several tens of meters”
.
“The hiking trail reaches the plateau without difficulty, but it is then surrounded by rocky bars. The father probably did not appreciate the dangerousness of the site. It’s horrible
,” detailed the councilor.
Alerted by the panicked father, firefighters and a unit from the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) from Oloron-Sainte-Marie found the body late in the afternoon.
According to the mayor, the victim's family, originally from Spain, was on vacation in the town for the Easter weekend and the mother
"had stayed in their lodging"
during the fatal hike.