An Italian mountaineer in his forties died Thursday afternoon in Haute-Savoie after a fall of "a hundred meters" in the Mont Blanc massif, AFP learned from relief mountain. The accident occurred around 13 hours while the victim was crossing the Marbled Aiguilles, at 3,500 meters above sea level, roped with an Italian mountaineer of about sixty years.
His companion in a serious condition
"The rope fell a hundred meters" for an indeterminate reason, according to the platoon of high mountain gendarmerie (PGHM) of Chamonix. The forty-year-old is dead on the spot. His climbing companion was found in a serious condition and his prognosis is engaged, said relief. He was transported to Geneva Hospital. An investigation, entrusted to the PGHM of Chamonix, was opened on the circumstances of the accident. An Italian mountaineer had already died in the mountains in July.