This is the second fatal accident in a week.

A man was found dead Sunday after having unscrewed, while he was climbing alone in the ascent of Mont-Blanc, indicate the mountain rescue services.

The victim, whose identification was in progress at the end of the day, fell on Sunday morning in the corridor of the Goûter.

A witness alerted the Chamonix high mountain gendarmerie (PGHM) platoon, according to France 3 Alpes.

"Apprentice mountaineers" in danger

A 65-year-old American had already been killed this week in the massif and a Korean has been missing there since Tuesday.

Friday, the prefecture of Haute-Savoie had warned against the difficulty and the dangerousness of the ascent of Mont-Blanc, even by the normal route, by reproaching “apprentice climbers” to venture there without being supervised by a professional guide.

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An American found dead in the Mont-Blanc massif

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Haute-Savoie: Death of a mountaineer after a night of perilous rescue on Mont-Blanc

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