“Nice adventure“confided this Thursday, February 3 on social networks the gendarmes of the Vosges.
During a hike on the side of the Vosges peaks, near the Col de Falimont, organized by an association for the visually impaired, a Labrador guide dog, Osmosis fell after getting a few meters away from the group. The animal”above a ledge“, specify the gendarmes, has then “slipped in a very steep couloir, over more than 150 meters, causing a snowflow.”
Arriving on site, the emergency services noted the difficulty of the intervention, “the situation seemed critical“for the two rescuers mobilized from the PGHM Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne Hohrod-Xonrupt.”One of them abseiled and after passing the ledge entered the corridor. It was to his amazement that he found Osmose, unscathed, taking refuge in the shrubs in a delicate situation. “. Osmose was then able to be reassembled unscathed.
The gendarmes specify that Osmose was able to thank his rescuers “celebrating them” .