Four people die in mountain accidents in the Alps

Four people, an Italian climber and three French mountaineers, were killed in three separate accidents in the Hautes-Alpes and Haute-Savoie on Sunday, according to concordant sources.

19659003] The first of these three tragedies cost the lives of a 40-year-old Milanese who was advancing at 3.000 meters altitude on Sunday in the Coolidge corridor, a climbing lane leading to Mount Pelvoux (Hautes-Alpes). in the Ecrins mbadif.

The forty-year-old would have perished after unscrewing for a hundred meters, said the gendarmes, who conducted Sunday afternoon hearings witnesses to try to determine the exact causes of his fall.

The man "was evolving with two friends, also of Italian nationality," Gap's prosecution also said in a statement.

Relief was not able to revive the victim – who died as a result of his injuries – who They intervened very quickly on the scene of the tragedy. They were then helping a casualty at the same time on the same track.

The second accident was played around 8:00 in the Mont Blanc (Haute-Savoie), at the expense of a climber who found the dead after unscrewing. Another climber, who accompanied him, came out polytraumatized.

The investigation to determine the circumstances of the tragedy was entrusted to the gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) of Chamonix.

The last accident caused the death of two French mountaineers, two women aged 48 and 54, who were advancing under the guidance of a guide on a path of the Enfetchores towards the Breche de la Meije (Hautes-Alpes), a summit located at 3,300 meters altitude. 19659003] According to the first elements of the investigation, the rope would have unscrewed about fifty meters at about 1:30 pm, causing the deaths of the two mountaineers.

The mountain guide, a 32 year old man who accompanied the two victims , was wounded and transported to the hospital of Grenoble.

"The man was roped with the two women and evolved in front.He was trying to get safe on a block of rock, this one s is detached, thus taking away Cordes ", detailed the parquet of Gap.

The two investigations concerning the accidents occurred in the department of Hautes-Alpes were entrusted to the platoon of gendarmerie of high mountain (PGHM) of Briançon.