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The body of the 53-year-old hiker, missing for a week, was found at 2,100 meters above sea level. According to preliminary evidence, he was the victim of a fatal fall in a steep sector.
The body of a 53-year-old hiker who had been missing for a week in Haute-Savoie was discovered Sunday at 2,100 meters above sea level in the Bornes mbadif, we learned from mountain rescue . The victim, a man from Haute-Savoie, experienced walker, was found Sunday morning at 8:30 by a shepherd under the summit of the Pic de Jallouvre.
Research has been undertaken since July 1. According to the first elements of the survey, the hiker was the victim of a fatal fall in this area of steep pastures occupied by herds. Research to find him had been undertaken Sunday, July 1 by mountain rescue after the discovery of his car on a parking collar Colombiere during a helicopter flight. A call for witnesses was launched Monday and important research continued in this area all week. Saturday, about sixty gendarmes had raked the ground to try to find it.
Open investigation to determine the circumstances of the drama. It is the wife of the victim, worried not to see him return, who gave the alert around 19:00 the evening of his disappearance. An investigation, entrusted to the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) of Annecy, was opened to clarify the circumstances of the tragedy.
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