Two touring skiers in their fifties both lost their lives in the Alps on Tuesday due to avalanches.
It was in Isère that the first drama took place in the afternoon.
At the end of the day, another man got caught in a casting, in Savoie this time.
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 50-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 fatal accident earlier in the afternoon in Isère
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 rescuers 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.