It was already too late when the rescuers of Pierrefitte Nestalat's high mountain gendarmerie (PGHM) platoon found him on rocky bars. A 45-year-old hiker died on Saturday afternoon on the heights of Bagnères-de-Luchon, in the Hautes-Garonne Pyrenees.
This 45-year-old soldier based in Pau left with two friends. Under the sun, they took the route connecting the Venasque refuge to the Hospice de France. On the way back, the victim got ahead of his comrades. It was by not finding him by car that the latter decided to give the alert around 4.30 p.m.
Precautionary statements
The gendarmes of the Luchon PGHM, in charge of the investigation, assume that the hiker was trapped "by a patch of hard snow" - at Coulet, a steeper passage located at 2,000 meters above sea level - then that he is " gone on a slide ”over a hundred meters, without being able to catch up.
The mountain rescue specialists draw the attention of hikers to the snow patches which, even in very good weather, persist on the shaded slopes and the need to equip themselves with adequate equipment such as crampons and ice axes.
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