PARIS.- Two Spanish mountaineersaged 26 and 27, died yesterday Wednesday on one of the peaks of the Mont-Blanc massifin the French Alpsauthorities reported.
The accident occurred in the afternoon, when the rope that the climbers were holding on to came loose for unknown reasons from a height of about 100 meters during a rappel in the Gervasutti corridorsaid a spokesman for the Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne Platoon (PGHM) in Chamonix.
A third member of the group, also Spanish, was unharmed but is seriously injured, he added, although he could not provide details about the identities or where the climbers came from.
And Rescue helicopter was able to recover the bodies of the deceased during the afternoon to transfer them to the city of Chamonix (east), capital of the French Alps.
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2024-09-05 07:36:07