Conditions were “good” on Easter Sunday while the French weather service had not issued an avalanche warning
Her account avalanche which occurred yesterday, Catholic Easter Sunday, in a French glacier Alps (eastern France), in the Mont Blanc mountain range, rose today to a total of six dead, two of whom were mountain guides, French authorities announced.
This tally makes yesterday’s avalanche one of the deadliest in recent years in France. It ran 1,600 meters from where it started to where it ended and was 500 meters wide, according to the prefecture of Haute-Savoie.
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“We have just discovered the sixth victim,” district attorney Carlin Bouisset told AFP. It is “probably” the partner of the 39-year-old woman who was found dead last night, a man born in 1981, the judge added. The couple lived in a suburb of Lyon, according to the same source.
The avalanche occurred yesterday morning on the Armanset glacier, high up in the town of Condamine-Monzois, and surprised “three groups of skiers”, each of whom was “flanked by one or two mountain guides”, the prosecution said.
The dead include two guides from the Saint-Gerves (Haute-Savoie) mountain guide company, born in 1974 and 1984, the National Union of Mountain Guides said in a statement.
The identities of the other victims have not been released.
Source :Skai
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