On March 10, a 31-year-old ice climber who was with two other mountaineers on the ice falls of the Cirque de Gavarnie, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, unscrewed over a hundred meters after being destabilized by a first avalanche.
The rescuers of the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon who intervened on the spot to help them were also affected by a second avalanche.
They had managed to get out before a third mass of snow broke off and save another glacier climber.
Risk of avalanche
Due to the climatic conditions and the intervention on site, the soldiers had not been able to intervene earlier on the spot to find the body of this ski instructor.
They returned there on Sunday and found the body of this man from Saint-Geours-de-Maremne, in the Landes, near the Gavarnie circus.
“The major risk was the over-avalanche, we had to work with the forecasters and limit the time of presence to the best hours of the day.
He was found in the axis of the avalanche but far enough from the rock wall, he was really swept away, "said Jean-Marc Bougy, the commander of the Pierrefite-Nestalas platoon, who intervened on the spot with the rescuers. of the Lannemezan CRS.
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