A 72-year-old Frenchman who was a regular at a climbing center in France would have lost his life after falling around twenty meters on Saturday while climbing the wall without attaching himself to the belay system.
«[Il a] signed a declaration of autonomy to attest to his knowledge of climbing. This person was a regular, it was impossible for us to predict this tragedy,” an employee of the Climb Up climbing gym in Confluence, in Lyon, France, reportedly confided to the local newspaper “Le Progrès”.
On Saturday, the 72-year-old climber presented himself at the gym he regularly frequented, declaring that he wanted to attempt a climb without attaching himself to the belay equipment, to cushion the descent, a police source reportedly confirmed. .
Except that, in circumstances which remain unclear, the man fell while he was about twenty meters in the air in the middle of the afternoon, reported the French media.
The center in question has 150 lanes and a meter 22 meters high, we can read on its social networks.
Emergency called to the scene, the firefighters tried everything to resuscitate him, without success, according to “Le Progrès”. The climbing gym would also have closed its doors for the rest of the weekend until Monday.
The management of the establishment would not have liked to comment on the incident, while an investigation is underway, according to the French media.
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