A young mountaineer perished Monday in the landslide of boulders in a moraine, in the Mer de Glace sector in the Mont-Blanc massif, according to the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM).
He was part of a team of two people who came down from the Couvercle refuge, in the direction of Chamonix (Haute-Savoie).
"While crossing a moraine, a landslide occurred and unfortunately took one of the two people on board," the PGHM told AFP.
His companion immediately notified the emergency services.
The man "completely buried"
The mountaineer, originally from the department and aged in his thirties, "was completely buried" when the rescuers arrived.
They "worked two hours with sufficient resources to extract" the victim but could only note his death.
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According to the PGHM, this type of landslide in a moraine area is "quite rare".
The weather conditions were not particularly risky.
