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The Mont Blanc. (illustrative photo)
MOUNTAIN – A 26-year-old guide and her 30-year-old client were found dead late Friday afternoon in the Massif du Mont Blanc in Chamonix, the Chamonix gendarmerie told AFP on Saturday August 13.
“They were discovered around 6:15 p.m.” by the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) of the town of Chamonix, a source in the gendarmerie told AFP, after falling while taking the normal route of the Aiguille du Peigne.
According The Dauphine Libereone of the two deceased women is Adèle Milloz, 26, world ski mountaineering champion in sprint and individual in 2017. An aspiring mountain guide, she was to complete her training at the end of the summer, specifies the regional newspaper.
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The bodies of the victims “were found in one face of the needle by witnesses who were also roaming the summit and passed the alert”explained the PGHM.
It is an accident and an investigation to determine the causes of it is underway, added the same source.
“The high mountains have become more dangerous with the drought but access was not subject to any particular prohibition”said the PGHM.
On August 5, two refuges allowing the ascent of Mont-Blanc were closed due to the ” danger of death “ represented by numerous rock falls due to the drought.
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