Already 14 deaths in France in avalanches in France this year. A 44-year-old woman died on Saturday in an avalanche in the Norma ski area, in Savoie, while she was skiing off-piste, we learned from the gendarmes.
The slide occurred shortly after noon at an altitude of more than 2,500 meters during the passage of a group of three skiers including the victim and her partner, said a manager of the Haute-Montagne Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM). ) from Bourg-Saint-Maurice, confirming information from France Bleu Pays-de-Savoie.
The forty-year-old, a resident of the region, “was the only one to be carried away by the avalanche for 200 meters before being dragged the same distance by an overavalanche which then completely buried her,” he said. added.
Serial accidents and call for vigilance
The victim, who was not wearing an avalanche victim detector (AVD), was located after an hour before being freed by six men from the Modane PGHM, who arrived quickly on the scene by helicopter. “The skier could not be revived despite first aid,” according to the same source. In the Savoyard massifs, the avalanche risk has been “marked” since Tuesday (3 on a scale of 5), potentially causing spontaneous avalanches to start, according to the PGHM, which called on the public “to be really careful” before taking the skis.
This call for vigilance is in addition to that, Thursday, from the department prefecture the day after several other accidents linked to avalanches in the Savoyard massifs, very snowy in recent days, one of which killed a 13-year-old skier. On Wednesday, in addition to the fatal avalanche, which took place off-piste in the Les Arcs area in the Aiguille Rouge sector, Savoie deplored three other snow slides which left three people injured in total.
On Monday, still in Savoie, two teenagers aged 12 and 17, who were skiing off-piste with their father in Val d’Isère, were also swept away by an avalanche and injured.
Source: www.20minutes.fr
