The search for four Korean and Italian climbers, stranded for three days in bad weather near Mont Blanc, was in vain on Tuesday morning, September 10, due to poor weather conditions, Agence France-Presse (AFP) of the Haute-Savoie prefecture learned.
“There was a flyby that was attempted this [mardi] Tomorrow by helicopter from Chamonix. But the rescuers were unable to get through the cloud barrier and turned back.”the prefecture told AFP. However, another plane is scheduled to take off. “Early afternoon from Annecy”although the weather forecasts are more favourable, he added, adding that an Italian rescue patrol had also set off alongside him. “overland” in the morning.
Deterioration of weather conditions.
No contact has been established with the mountaineers since Saturday. On Saturday, late in the afternoon, the High Mountain Gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) was alerted by “Three rope climbing parties in danger not far from the summit of Mont Blanc in very bad weather conditions”.
A team of two Koreans was evacuated on Sunday morning, thanks to significant resources, to an altitude of 4,100 metres, not far from the Brenva pass. But the deterioration of the weather conditions has since made it impossible for the other two teams being sought, made up of two other Koreans and two Italians, to intervene.
A PGHM commander had told the regional newspaper The Dauphiné liberated that would have been possible “locate and [d’]We briefly exchanged telephone conversations with the two Italians who were on the north face of Mont Blanc, at an altitude of 4,600 metres.before the conversation was interrupted. According to a PGHM official in Chamonix, “It is perfectly possible to survive more than three days if you can protect yourself from the wind and the cold”.
