Two experienced mountaineers who had not given any sign of life since Tuesday were found dead Wednesday morning in the Mont Blanc, we learned from mountain rescue, confirming information Dauphine liberated .
The bodies of the victims were discovered around 8:30 by the gendarmes on a glacier located at 2,700 meters of altitude during an aerial reconnaissance that could not be conducted Tuesday night because of the fog. According to the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) of Chamonix, in charge of the investigation, the two men would have unscrewed and made a heavy fall of several hundred meters as they had begun the ascent of the Aiguille du Plan by a less traveled route.
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The victims are a member of the Military High Mountain Group (GMHM) and a guide of the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix aged 31 and 38 respectively. The rope had left the shelter of the Plan de l'Aiguille Tuesday morning at sunrise to begin the climb. It was the High Mountain Military Group, worried about having no news of the two men, who contacted the PGHM on Tuesday night at around 10pm.
Wednesday night, investigations were still conducted by the PGHM Chamonix to try to determine the circumstances of the tragedy.