The disappearance of a 46-year-old hiker was reported earlier this week in the Vosges. The gendarmes have just found a lifeless body.
The deceased was found in the heights of Metzeral, in the Vosges, only a few days after the disappearance of a resident of the region who went on a hike. It was by following “marks in the snow” that the gendarmes found this lifeless body, AFP reports. The body was found on Thursday, December 23 in the late afternoon.
For the time being, the gendarmes still have to do additional analyzes to certify the link between the missing woman and the lifeless body found in the same area. But everything seems to coincide. “We have elements which suggest that it is about this person, but for the moment the identification is not formal”, specified the gendarmerie. at the same source.
The disappearance of the hiker was reported Monday, December 20 by her son. A call for witnesses was then launched throughout the region. The Vosges and Haut-Rhin gendarmerie mobilized significant technical resources to find the missing woman. It was ultimately these footprints in the snow that made it possible to find the unidentified body.
An abandoned car at the foot of a mountain
Nadine Dieudonné, a resident of the city of Epinal is the hiker who has disappeared. She was experienced in mountain walking and used to go alone. Sunday, December 19, she began a solo hike, but since the 46-year-old woman has not given any sign of life. Among the clues left behind her, the gendarmes found her car parked in a parking lot at the foot of the summit of Hohneck.
The reasons for its disappearance could be linked to the weather and the state of the hiking trails during the winter. “The trail that she had a priori chosen was defined as” summer and technical “, but in winter the hiking trails are more complicated and dangerous”, explained Philippe Viré, of the Hohrod mountain police platoon in France 3 Grand Est.