A man in his fifties had a fatal fall, this Sunday, October 21 in the afternoon, as he went down with his son from the summit of Mont Blanc.
It has unscrewed more than 400 meters from the ridge of the Bosses, at about 4,500 meters above sea level. A French mountaineer in his fifties had a fatal fall, Sunday afternoon, as he was coming down with his son by the normal route of the summit of Mont Blanc, it was learned from the peloton of high mountain gendarmerie (PGHM) of Chamonix (Haute-Savoie). When help arrived, the victim died.
The mountaineer had climbed Mont Blanc with his son, about twenty years old. The two men were advancing on the first ridge of the Bosses, on a very steep slope, above the Vallot refuge, when the father unscrewed. The two men had separated shortly before the accident and the father was not roped with his son, according to the same source.