a man dies after falling 40 meters from a gondola in the Deux Alpes resort

“A fatal fall of 40 meters.” A 29-year-old young man died on Saturday April 1 after accidentally falling from a gondola station in Les Deux Alpes (Isère). An investigation is open and an expertise expected after this fatal fall, said the Grenoble prosecutor’s office on Sunday.

“Two young men aged 29 and 23, drunk, were heckling in the gondola and the 29-year-old crossed the Plexiglas wall”, explained prosecutor Eric Vaillant. The accident took place around 5 p.m. on Saturday, when the two men were returning to the station from the top of the slopes. The scene was filmed by the younger of the two men with his phone, said the prosecution.

According to France Bleu Isère, the two men heckled while filming each other, and the victim, who was 1m90 tall and weighed more than 100 kilos, would have taken off to cross the cabin and throw himself against the wall. An expertise of the cabin is scheduled and the gendarmes of the company of La Mure have been seized of the investigation. The manager of the Deux Alpes area, Sata Group, added, from Saturday evening, that a psychological support unit was set up. According to its manager, the gondola was in perfect condition. “She had passed all the security tests”Fabrice Boutet told France Bleu Isère. “Besides, the cabin door did not open in the shock, it was the window that broke”, he added. UA psychological support unit has been set up in the station.