Two people died Thursday in falls that occurred during hikes in the Alps, Isère and in the Mont-Blanc massif, mountain rescue services said on Friday, confirming information from the regional daily
Le Dauphiné Libéré
.
A fatal fall from 400 meters
A 65-year-old man fell to his death from 400 meters near the Bossons Glacier, which descends from Mont-Blanc.
The man fell this Thursday, around 1,900 meters above sea level, from a path "very practicable" but located on a ridge near the glacier.
"As soon as you fall on the wrong side, it's very steep," said the gendarmes, who opened an investigation, as with every fatal accident.
In Isère, it is a young woman of 18, in religious retreat in the Chartreuse de Currière, an isolated monastery in the massif of the same name north of Grenoble, who died on Thursday.
Left alone for a hike in the morning, she did not return for noon to the monastery, which called the gendarmerie of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, the town where this building has been installed in the middle of the forest since the Middle Ages. .
The body was found at the foot of a rocky ridge
Teams with dogs from the PGHM of Isère, as well as a helicopter, went in search of him, without success.
It is teams of gendarmes on the ground who found, in a steep place, the lifeless body of this young woman after an evening of research, around midnight between Thursday and Friday.
According to
Le Dauphiné Libéré
, the body was found at the foot of a rocky bar, which suggests an accident, according to the PGHM of Isère.
An investigation, led by the Meylan gendarmerie, was opened.
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