For the seventh time in the space of a few days, a skier died during an avalanche, in the Alps. The victim was skiing in the town of Bessans (Savoie), when the avalanche started under the tip of Andagne, which rises to 3,217meters, explains here (ex-France Bleu) Pays de Savoie. According to the mountains in the mountains, the avalanche was very important. It was 200 meters wide with a crest of one meter.
It was a friend who accompanied the victim who warned the aid. He had been able to locate it and extract it from the snow thanks to its avalanche detector device. Unfortunately, he was already too much and the victim could not be resuscitated by help.
Fourth incident and seven deaths in a week
The risk of avalanche was “marked” according to the forecasters of Météo-France this weekend. It was level three out of the five in the risk of avalanche. The meteorologists had planned the training “new plates at altitude with the nights of the night and this Saturday”.
This accident brings the number of people who died in the Alps in the space of a week to seven. On Tuesday, a 55-year-old Briton had not survived an avalanche on the Domaine des Grands Montets (Haute-Savoie). The next day, four Norwegians died after being swept away in a snowflow of Val-Cenis, another seriously injured. On the same day, a woman died while doing off-piste in the Chamonix valley.
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