Rescuers from the CRS de Gavarnie were called early Sunday afternoon for a fall on the ledge path, which connects the Pailha refuge to the Gavarnie circus.
A man from the Eastern Pyrenees, who was hiking with his wife in this mountain sector of the Hautes-Pyrénées, unscrewed about twenty meters, according to France Bleu.
Witnesses and his wife tried to rescue him, as did members of the CRS when they arrived.
Despite their intervention, the 54-year-old man could not be resuscitated.
Miscellaneous
Hautes-Alpes: A paraglider found dead in the woods
Society
Pyrenees: The body of Esther Dingley, the Briton who disappeared in the Pyrenees, found
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