A PGHM helicopter in the Pyrenees.
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Surprised by a patch of ice, his slip was fatal.
A man in his sixties died Wednesday in the Ariège Pyrenees after hitting a rock.
He was part of a group of five skiers hiking on the heights of Port de Lers, near the small village of Massat.
A course that is not known to be difficult.
But, "when passing a valley, he moved away from the rest of the group to take a shady part, he slipped 100 to 150 meters," said Major Jean-Marc Galin, of the gendarmerie platoon. high mountain (PGHM) of Savignac-les-Ormeaux, pointing out that the snow can be very hard in shady areas.
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With the closure of ski areas, ski hikers are particularly numerous in the Pyrenees.
The massif has already been in mourning at the end of January when a sixty-year-old was buried in an avalanche in the Luz-Ardiden sector, in the Hautes-Pyrénées.
The mountain rescuers call on practitioners to be extremely careful.
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