Illustrative photo of a helicopter of the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM). - Jobard - Sipa

Black weekend for the Alps with the death of three extreme sports practitioners and a hiker after accidents. Rescue workers in the mountains announced on Sunday the death of a thirty-something woman, who fell about thirty meters, while she was out on a canyoning trip in the Chartreuse massif (Isère), near Grenoble.

The accident took place shortly before 3:45 p.m. at Quaix-en-Chartreuse, in the Infernet canyon, a gorge popular with practitioners. According to the first elements of the investigation, the young woman was in the last position of a group supervised by a monitor at the time of her fatal fall. The hypothesis of a “bad manipulation” is privileged, indicated the republican company of security (CRS) of Isère.

Fall of several hundred meters for a hiker in Isère

In Haute-Savoie, a 48-year-old man also killed himself Sunday while practicing paragliding at La Sambuy-Seythenex, a ski resort located south of Lake Annecy. A 63-year-old man had suffered the same fate Saturday after a hang-gliding accident on a landing area in Passy (Haute-Savoie). According to the chaplain of high mountain gendarmerie (PGHM) of Chamonix, the sixty-something man “would have plunged and fallen twenty meters” after a wing of his hang glider had hung a tree.

A 51-year-old man, who hiked Sunday in the Dévoluy massif (Isère), concludes this dark series, after having been the victim of a fall of several hundred meters.

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