Two ski instructors from Alpe d'Huez die in an avalanche in Isère

Monday was decidedly terrible in the high mountains.

After the death on Monday morning of three ski touring, in the Ecrins massif (Hautes-Alpes), a guide was seriously injured in the skull in another avalanche, in the valley of Lavey (Isère), as revealed by

.

Rescued by his friends and then by the Isère rescuers from the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM), Samu and Civil Security, after being caught in a flow of several hundred meters, the victim was evacuated to a CHU.

At the same time, two climbers, a 49-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man, died in another avalanche at the Long Glacier, in Ailefroide (Isère).

According to Olivier Nagabbo, deputy prosecutor of Grenoble quoted by

, "the passage of two other skiers on a 45-degree slope triggered a slab which caused a flow of snow" and threw the two victims into rocky bars.

A third member of the group, injured in the upper limbs, was admitted to the shearing service.

A judicial inquiry has been opened to determine the responsibilities in the death of these two instructors from the Alpe d'Huez ski school (Isère).

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