“She was the mother of a whole generation of guides”: the Vercors pays tribute to the dead caver by saving a schoolgirl

Sabine Lorne, 55, was a pioneer in her discipline, a respected guide, ski instructor and mother of three children. His funeral takes place on Friday in Lans-en-Vercors (Isère).

Sabine Lorne was the first state-certified woman in speleology. She died Thursday while rescuing a schoolgirl threatened by a flash flood in the Cuves de Sassenage, a tourist cavity located at the foot of the Vercors, where hundreds of people are expected this Friday for her funeral. She “who breathed the joy of living gave his life to save a child”says France Rocourt, herself a figure in cave rescue and mountain rescue specialist, upset by this disappearance.

“We are all destroyed”, confirms Sandrine Caubel, from the Villard-de-Lans Nordic ski club where Sabine Lorne, who was also a ski instructor, supervised the adults. She describes her friend, mother of three children aged 22 to 29, as “an involved, energetic and cheerful professional, an altruistic, generous and bubbly friend…”

This Friday in Lans-en-Vercors (Isère), the inhabitants of the plateau and members of the caving community will attend by the hundreds the ceremony in honor of the 55-year-old caving guide, who always wore braids when she went underground. “She meant a lot to us. His disappearance is cataclysmic for our environment.says Thierry Larribe, se…