a forty-year-old dies in an avalanche in La Norma

A skier died on Saturday following an avalanche in Savoie.

A forty-year-old woman died in an avalanche on Saturday December 28 in the La Norma ski area in Savoie, reports France Bleu Pays de Savoie. She was skiing with two other people in an off-piste area. According to initial information from rescue trackers, the passage of this group of three people triggered an avalanche “on an off-piste mountainous area of ​​La Norma (St-Antoine stream)”.

Alerted at midday, three rescuers, a dog handler and two helicopters were mobilized for the search. The forty-year-old, who was not equipped with an avalanche victim detector, was located using the probe and then freed at 1 p.m. Despite medical treatment and numerous resuscitation procedures, she died.

This is the second victim of an avalanche in an off-piste area in a week in Savoie. A 14-year-old teenager also died in an avalanche at the Aiguille rouge d'Arc 2000 this Wednesday.