two young women, a guide and her client, lost their lives this Friday afternoon in the Mont-Blanc massif, during an accident on the normal route of the Aiguille du Peigne (3,192 meters above sea level), a mountaineering race of rock, we learned this Saturday. Among the victims, Adele Milloz, 26 years oldfrom Tignes (Savoie), ski mountaineering champion.
“It was another roped party of two people who was in the area who gave the alert around 5:50 p.m.”. The circumstances remain to be established, but according to the first elements, the accident did not “no connection with a rock fall or a landslide”. Guide Adèle Milloz and her client, a young woman in her thirties, did not survive.
The roped party which gave the alert, in a state of shock, was evacuated by the rescuers of the Chamonix PGHM. An investigation has been opened.
Who is Adele Milloz?
Ski mountaineering world champion in sprint and individual in 2017, Adele Milloz finished fifth in the Pierra Menta in 2018. The young woman was currently training at National School of Skiing and Mountaineering (ENSA) from Chamonix to become a high mountain guide. She had to validate her guide diploma before the end of the summer. Adèle Milloz had also worked within the PGHM of Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Savoie) and collaborated regularly with the company of Chamonix guides.