The events took place on Saturday morning. A woman, aged 54, died after falling around forty meters from the top of a rocky ridge, in Cusy, in Haute-Savoie, reports The Dauphiné Libéré.
According to information from the local newspaper, she was taking part in a hunting trip and it was the other participants who alerted the emergency services around 10 a.m. Quickly arriving on scene, firefighters were unable to do anything to save the victim. His death was declared on the spot by a Samu doctor.
According to initial investigations, she fell accidentally. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Annecy gendarmerie company to determine the exact circumstances of the facts.