Savoie: A touring skier dies in an avalanche (Illustration) -
C. VILLEMAIN / 20 MINUTES
A 51-year-old cross-country skier died Tuesday evening in Savoie after being swept away at the end of the afternoon by an avalanche which triggered at the Aussois resort, we learned from mountain rescue services. .
The victim, an experienced man who was advancing equipped with an avalanche victim detector (DVA), was at an altitude of 2,200 meters in the Combe des Balmes sector, upstream from the Aussois station, when he was caught in a casting.
The fifty-year-old, who was in the company of another skier on a black slope closed to the public at the time of the accident, was found 200 meters lower, shortly after 5 p.m., during an aerial reconnaissance of the gendarmerie platoon mountain range (PGHM) from Modane.
Another death in the Alps
This Tuesday afternoon, the Alps were bereaved by another fatal accident caused by an avalanche.
A backcountry skier in his fifties died in Isère after being buried by a flow in the town of Freney-d'Oisans.
The avalanche victim detector it was equipped with enabled emergency services to locate it quickly, but it took more than half an hour to clear it from more than three meters of snow.
The resuscitation initiated by the doctor on the spot did not save him, said the Peloton de gendarmerie de haute-montagne (PGHM) of Isère, which intervened.
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