The 65-year-old hiker suffered fractures and hypothermia, then evacuated to a Toulouse hospital.
-
PGHM Luchon
These are witnesses who gave the alert, Saturday around 12:30 pm After seeing a person unscrewing 300 meters below the refuge of Vénasque, in the central Pyrenees, they dialed 112 to contact the gendarmerie platoon. high mountain (PGHM) of Luchon.
Two soldiers from this Haut-Garonnaise unit then walked to the scene of the accident, near the Franco-Spanish border.
Ariégeois from PGHM 09, accompanied by a doctor from Samu 09, went to the site by helicopter.
The emergency services discovered a 65-year-old man suffering from several fractures, in a state of hypothermia but with "nothing serious", as the PGHM of Luchon indicates on Facebook.
This hiker from the Toulouse metropolitan area was evacuated to a hospital in the Pink City to take additional exams.
Reminder of precautionary instructions
Not all mountain stories have an almost miraculous end like this.
The PGHM 31 recalls the precautionary instructions as the end of winter approaches, while night-time freezing requires the use of ice crampons to rub against snow that remains lasts a large part of the day, at high altitude.
Miscellaneous
Pyrenees: The snowshoe outing ends with a 20-meter drop from a rocky ridge
Miscellaneous
Hautes-Pyrénées: A ski hiker dies buried by an avalanche
Gendarme
Rescue
Hiking
Toulouse
Pyrenees
Mountain
Miscellaneous