Two young people, from the Paris region, launched in a “Tour de France of containment”, were rescued in the middle of the night Friday in the Pyrenees. "At one o'clock in the morning, we were called because a man was shouting in the streets of the village of Gavarnie (Hautes-Pyrénées) saying that an accident had occurred, explained Captain Julien Passeron, chief of the CRS des Hautes-Pyrénées. We were not sure what we were going on, if it was someone who had drunk too much or something…. In fact it was! "
“These were two 26-year-olds, originally from Trappes (Yvelines), who had left the village of Gavarnie, going up under old chairlifts which have not been turning for several decades, to go to the top of the Pic du Mourgat (2.103 meters) to see the sunset, added the captain. They saw the sunset and then came back down, knowing that to light up, they only had a small dynamo lamp, which is activated by turning the crank, which is very dangerous, especially when you is on steep slopes, off trails, interspersed with rocky bars. "
Hypothermia and severe trauma
Still the Hautes-Pyrénées CRS, the young man who had the lamp fell and fell almost 150 meters. His friend went back down to the village to give the alert by lighting up with his watch. The accident must have occurred between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., but it did not arrive until 1:00 a.m. in the village.
A helicopter from the Tarbes gendarmerie air detachment immediately took off in an attempt to locate the victim, who was found around 3 a.m. The young man was in a state of hypothermia and suffered from severe trauma all over his body as well as several fractures.
"A tourist confinement, a kind of Tour de France of confinement"
He was immediately transported to Tarbes hospital in serious condition, then transferred to Toulouse for surgery. His vital prognosis would not be engaged. "It's a miracle," says Captain Passeron. Within two hours, it was not recovered. If he had been unconscious, we probably couldn't have found him. "
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The two men explained that they were carrying out “tourist confinement, a sort of Tour de France of confinement. Apparently, they had gone to the Pilat dune (Gironde), then to Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and finally to Gavarnie. They took advantage of confinement as well as vacations, ”relates the head of the CRS 65. They were fined and fined 135 euros each. “We are doing everything to rescue the victim, which is by far the priority. But afterwards, we are morally obliged to verbalize them. "
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