Illustrative photo of a skier, here last week in Germany.
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Matthias Schrader / AP / SIPA
About fifty firefighters and two civil security helicopters were mobilized Wednesday, in Ain, to help a ski touring.
But the 60-year-old man died in the afternoon in the Jura Mountains, after being swept away by an avalanche, we learned from the firefighters.
The victim was then with his wife on the crêt de l'Aiguillon, a route located in the town of Chézery-Forens (Ain), when she was caught in a 150-meter avalanche, shortly before 2 p.m.
Found under more than a meter of snow by the firefighters of the Group of reconnaissance and intervention in perilous environment (Grimp), the sixty-year-old was transported by helicopter, in cardiopulmonary arrest, to the Annecy hospital (Haute -Savoie), where he ultimately died.
The Ain prefecture calls for caution in the mountains
Unscathed but shocked, his companion was taken care of by the gendarmerie.
In a press release, the Ain prefecture called for caution in the mountains, stressing that “the current weather conditions, combining milder temperatures and strong gusts of wind, make the outings more dangerous”.
“The snow, which has fallen in abundance in recent days, and which is melting more quickly, causes more instability.
This situation, which the department is experiencing, is also observed in neighboring departments, ”added the prefecture.
Several other accidents linked to snowflows were recorded Wednesday in the Alps
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without causing any victims.
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