Climbers and hikers were killed on Wednesday and Thursday, particularly around Mont Blanc, where emergency services are calling for people to “postpone plans for mountain outings” due to the continued heavy snowfall.
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Five mountaineers or hikers suffered fatal falls in two days in the Alps, especially in the Mont Blanc massif, French and Italian emergency services announced to AFP on Friday June 28. A Czech, a Pole and a Taiwanese are among those who died in the French Alps. Emergency services are calling for vigilance due to the persistence of heavy snow at altitude.
The Val d’Aosta Alpine Rescue Service told AFP that it had responded to a climber who had fallen on the Miage Glacier, at an altitude of around 2,800 metres on the southern slope of the Mont Blanc massif in Italy, on Wednesday. On Thursday, a climber from Taiwan fell several hundred metres while climbing at an altitude of over 3,000 metres on the north face of the Aiguille du Midi, according to the Chamonix mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM).
A Pole also died in the same circumstances in the Goûter corridor, at an altitude of 3,500 meters, while a Czech hiker left a trail and slipped down a grassy slope, more than 2,000 meters above sea level. meters of altitude in the Col de la Croix du Bonhomme sector, south of the Mont Blanc massif, according to the PGHM. The high mountain gendarmerie platoon also found, on Friday, the lifeless body of a hiker who had probably fallen the day before, also sliding down a grassy slope.
The Haute-Savoie prefecture also warned on Friday of stormy disturbances that could cause heavy rainfall, gusts of wind and electrical activity on Saturday. “It would be reasonable to postpone your plans for mountain outings in order to benefit from conditions more conducive to mountaineering and outdoor activities.”she emphasizes.
