Europe 1 with AFP 1:45 p.m., August 13, 2022
A guide and her client were found dead Friday at the end of the day in the Mont-Blanc massif, in the Alps, in Chamonix.
They would have fallen while they were taking the normal route of the Aiguille du Peigne.
This is an accident and an investigation to determine the causes is underway.
A 26-year-old guide and her 30-year-old client were found dead late Friday afternoon in the Mont-Blanc massif, in the Alps, in Chamonix, the Chamonix gendarmerie told AFP on Saturday.
"They were discovered around 6:15 p.m." by the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) of the town of Chamonix", a source in the gendarmerie told AFP, after falling while they were taking the normal route of the mountain. Aiguille du Peigne. The bodies of the victims, both French, "were found in one face of the Aiguille by witnesses who were also walking the summit and who passed the alert", explained the PGHM.
Drought makes high mountains more dangerous
It is an accident and an investigation to determine the causes of it is underway, added the same source.
"The high mountains have become more dangerous with the drought, but access was not subject to any particular prohibition," said the PGHM.
On August 5, two refuges allowing the ascent of Mont-Blanc were closed because of the "danger of death" represented by numerous rock falls due to the drought.