A 30-year-old trail runner, reported missing since Sunday in the La Plagne area, in Savoie, has been found. She was transported by helicopter to Grenoble hospital in serious condition.
“After twenty-eight hours of searching and the commitment of more than fifty gendarmes accompanied by around thirty volunteers, the young woman in her thirties was found alive and conscious, in hypothermia and polytraumatized, in an area mountainous, difficult to access and steep”, indicated Monday the public prosecutor of Albertville, Anne Gaches, and the Savoie departmental gendarmerie group in a joint press release.
A fall due to a “steep and icy portion”
On Sunday, the sportswoman left her home around 7:15 a.m. to go running in the mountains, reports France 3. The police were alerted to her disappearance by her relatives, who had not heard from her. The soldiers of the PGHM and the mountain group of the Savoie gendarmerie then launched a search operation on the ground. A major device was deployed, with tracking dogs on the ground as well as a helicopter from the aerial section of the Modane gendarmerie.
The young woman was found the next day, around 12:40 p.m., in the Croizelin woods area where personal effects belonging to her had been discovered shortly before. According to the first elements of the investigation, she fell “in a steep and icy portion of her race route”.