Europe 1 with AFP 3:54 p.m., August 04, 2022
Two French mountaineers, a 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, lost their lives after a fatal fall in the Écrins massif, located in the Hautes-Alpes department.
They had been missing since Tuesday evening before being found dead late Wednesday afternoon.
Two French mountaineers, aged 25 and 27 and missing since Tuesday evening, were found dead late Wednesday afternoon in the Écrins massif in the Hautes-Alpes, the CRS Alpes de Briançon announced on Thursday.
"It was a rope of amateurs who unscrewed in the ascent of a summit of Olan and who fell in the bergschrund, a crevasse at the foot of the walls of a glacier", explains to AFP the Republican Security Company, confirming information from the
Dauphiné Libéré
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The two mountaineers, a 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, lived in the region, according to the same source.
It was the Olan refuge (in the town of La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar), from which the two victims had left early Tuesday, who had indicated that they would return after their ascent, which warned of their disappearance.
Found at the bottom of a crevasse
Four rescuers from the CRS Alpes de Briançon in a helicopter, accompanied by a doctor, then went in search of them before finding them "at the bottom of the crevasse on Wednesday at the end of the afternoon".
"They fell between 100 and 150 meters" and "the cause is accidental", concluded the company.
Last December, two French mountaineers came very close to a similar tragedy in Argentina but were finally rescued.