Two 48-year-old paragliders died on Tuesday afternoon in Haute-Savoie following a flight incident that caused the duo to fall 200 meters, we learned on Wednesday from the emergency services.
The two men, a monitor and his client who flew over the town of La Chapelle-d'Abondance aboard a two-seater paraglider, crashed shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday on the roof of a house when their veil was set torch. The victims died at the scene of the tragedy despite the intervention of the firefighters.
It was the third paragliding death in ten days in Haute-Savoie. On July 5, a 48-year-old man died while flying over La Sambuy-Seythenex, a ski resort located south of Lake Annecy, near the border with Savoy.
Two mountaineers killed
That day, a 63-year-old man was also killed during a hang-gliding accident on a landing area in the town of Passy, located at the foot of the Mont Blanc massif. According to the Chamonix High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM), the sixty-year-old had "plunged and dropped twenty meters", a wing of his hang glider having hung a tree while trying to land.
In addition, two mountaineers also killed themselves Tuesday in Haute-Savoie, while falling in the Aiguilles Rouges massif.
