The High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) reported Monday evening that a young mountaineer perished during the day in the rockslide of boulders in a moraine. The thirty-something, originally from Haute-Savoie, was then in the Mer de Glace sector, in the heart of the Mont-Blanc massif.
He was part of a team of two people who came down from the Couvercle refuge, in the direction of Chamonix (Haute-Savoie). “While crossing a moraine, a landslide occurred and unfortunately took one of the two people on board”, explains the PGHM. His friend immediately notified the emergency services.
On their arrival, they found that the victim was “completely buried”. The rescuers therefore worked for two hours with substantial means to extract the body of the climber, and note his death. The weather conditions were not particularly risky Monday, and according to the PGHM, this type of landslide in a moraine area is “quite rare”.