By Le Figaro with AFP
Published
January 2 at 7:18 a.m.,
updated January 2 at 8:35 a.m.
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The two women were equipped with “insufficient” hiking equipment for this type of winter outing, according to authorities.
Two women died on Wednesday a few hours apart in Haute-Garonne, in the same sector of the Pyrenees, after slipping and falling from 300 meters high, we learned from the CRS Pyrénées.
The first accident, which took place early in the morning in the town of Boutx, caused the death of a 33-year-old woman who had gone walking, accompanied by two other people, with insufficient equipment for this type of hiking in winter. , according to the CRS at the Luchon aid station, in Haute-Garonne.
A few hours later, a comparable accident, also near the Cagire peak, but in the town of Arguenos, caused the death of a 46-year-old woman. She had left with her companion, also “with shoes that are not necessarily suitable”while the snow, having become “almost ice cream”is currently extremely slippery.
“We had snowfall, then it rained and it froze with the temperatures”making the floors very slippery, explained the CRS, for which “you have to be vigilant”.
