On December 28, 2024, a 13-year-old girl died after suffering a heart attack while skiing in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
The young girl was skiing down the slopes of the Gourette resort with her family when she suffered a heart attack, reports France bleu.
The young girl was skiing with her family at the top of the resort, in the Pène Blanque sector, when she suddenly collapsed in the snow.
The witnesses immediately contacted the emergency services who were quickly dispatched to the scene thanks to a Dragon 64. Once they arrived, the firefighters, then the SAMU and the station's ski patrollers, took charge of the teenager.
The victim was rushed to Pau hospital, where he underwent treatment all afternoon. For several hours, doctors tried to resuscitate her, in vain. She was declared dead early in the evening.
According to our colleagues, there was no collision with another skier before the tragedy, citing the press release of the gendarmerie.
On Christmas Day, a 14-year-old boy died while skiing in Savoie, in very different circumstances. The young man was riding with a group of six other skiers from his family in the off-piste area of the Aiguille Rouge in Arc 2000, when he was swept away by a huge avalanche 80 metres wide and 400 metres long
A ski instructor who witnessed the scene raised the alarm. Rescue teams quickly intervened, accompanied by two dog teams who were able to locate the buried victim using a probe. She could not be resuscitated.
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