The two women were found on Friday by the high mountain gendarmerie platoon. They fell by taking the normal route of the Aiguille du Peigne.
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Drama in the Mont-Blanc massif. A 26-year-old guide and her 30-year-old client were found dead on Friday August 12 at the end of the day near Chamonix, the town’s gendarmerie told AFP on Saturday. They fell as they took the normal route of the Aiguille du Peigne.
The bodies of the victims, both French, “were found in one face of the needle by witnesses who were also hiking the summit and passed the alert”, explained the high mountain gendarmerie platoon. It is an accident and an investigation to determine the causes of it is underway, added the same source.
“The high mountains have become more dangerous with the drought but access was not subject to any particular prohibition”, said the PGHM. On August 5, two refuges allowing the ascent of Mont-Blanc were closed due to the “danger of death” represented by numerous rock falls due to the drought.
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