A 51-year-old man who was hiking in Isère in the Dévoluy massif was found on Sunday by the Republican Security Company (CRS) of Briançon after having fallen several hundreds of meters. The body was found at almost 2,400 m above sea level.
Originally from the Rhône, the man had undertaken, on Saturday, a steep loop close to mountaineering around the Obiou, a summit of the Dévoluy massif culminating at about 2,800 m above sea level. Without news, his wife had alerted the emergency services. According to the emergency services, it would have fallen heavily on the northwest face of this massif. His body was located during a helicopter reconnaissance.
Investigation
An investigation was opened to try to determine the circumstances of the tragedy.
This weekend, the Alps were also bereaved by the deaths of three extreme sports practitioners. Saturday, a 63-year-old man killed himself in a hang-gliding accident on a landing area in the town of Passy located at the foot of the Mont Blanc massif, in Haute-Savoie.
On Sunday, a woman in her thirties died after having fallen heavily while on a canyoning trip in the Chartreuse massif near Grenoble (Isère). Also on Sunday, in Haute-Savoie, a 48-year-old man also died while practicing paragliding at La Sambuy-Seythenex, a ski resort located south of Lake Annecy.