Overview
- The slide struck around midday on the north face of Bellecôte at about 2,500 meters in the Tarentaise valley, according to the mountain gendarmerie.
- A 60-year-old man in cardiac arrest was resuscitated and a 50-year-old woman was extracted polytraumatized before both were flown to Grenoble hospital.
- Among the four less-severely affected, one skier was partially buried and freed himself, another slid roughly 100 meters, and two were treated for shock.
- More than a dozen responders, including two doctors, a search-dog handler, and seven piste patrollers, carried out the rescue operations.
- Météo France rated the Haute-Tarentaise at level 2 above 2,100 meters, with PGHM warning of wind-formed slabs, while nearby Haute-Maurienne was at level 4.