DTwo French mountaineers, aged 25 and 27 and missing since Tuesday evening, were found dead Wednesday at the end of the day in the Écrins massif (Hautes-Alpes), announced Thursday, August 4, the CRS Alpes de Briançon.
“It was a rope of amateurs who unscrewed in the ascent of a summit in Oman and who fell in the bergschrund, a crevasse at the foot of the walls of a glacier”, explains to Agence France – Press the Public Security Company, confirming information from the Dauphiné liberated.
A fall of 100 and 150 meters
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.
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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,” the company concluded.