the CRS Alpes finds a “miraculous” 19-year-old Irish woman after she got lost in shorts and a t-shirt in the mountains

Around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, this young tourist left the nightclub where she had spent the evening.

A 19-year-old Irish woman was located by the CRS Alpes at 7 a.m. on Wednesday January 3, after having wandered for almost 3 hours in shorts and t-shirt in the Oisans massif, lost when she left a box at night from the Deux Alpes station, reports France Bleu Isère Wednesday evening. She escaped with slight hypothermia, “miraculous”, according to the Commander who directs the CRS Alpes. He calls on young partygoers to be careful in this area.

Around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, this young Irish tourist left the nightclub where she had spent the evening. Drunk and simply dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, on the way back, she got lost in the forest of the Combe de Venosc, in the middle of the mountains.

Despite a high alcohol level according to emergency services, she was able to dial the emergency number, 112, with her cell phone, without being able to give her location or her cell phone number. On the line, the rescuers were unable to identify his number, since it was a foreign number. The young woman then contacted her father, who called back the CRS Alpes to give them his daughter’s number. The rescuers were able to send her an SMS with the GendLoc geolocation system, which she was able to activate. She was finally located at 7 a.m.

“A miracle”

“When we picked her up, she was suffering from some bruising because she must have fallen while trying to find her way back and she was suffering from mild hypothermia.”explains Commander Ludovic Saint Bonnet, who heads the CRS Alpes. “We can say that she is a miracle, because alone, so little dressed, she would not have been able to resist the cold for long”adds the Commander.

“It was a real relief when the teams found her”, adds Commander Saint Bonnet. He reminds us that people are already “deceased” following a “excessive alcohol consumption and wandering in this part of the massif”, the valley of Venosc. He therefore calls for prevention among young people and caution: “It’s not because we go out to a nightclub that we should forget to dress in accordance with the environment in which we operate”.

The young woman was transported by helicopter to the Emergency Department of Grenoble University Hospital, but her life is not in danger.