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The hours pass and the chances of finding them alive are dwindling. It is now six days that two climbers were stranded at 4050 meters, the Grand Jorasses in the Mont-Blanc. On several occasions, helicopters tried to go get the high-mountain guide Sourzac French Olivier, 47, Charlotte Demetz and his client, an experienced mountaineer Paris 44. Because of the weather "Himalayan", these attempts have fizzled. While a new helicopter rescue attempt was underway Monday at midday, despite the persistence of the fog on the Italian side, the stock of the situation with the platoon commander of the gendarmerie mountain (PGHM) Chamonix.
Two climbers died of exposure after two nights stranded on Mount Blanc
Fatal falls in the Mont-Blanc
TF1 News: What are the chances of finding them alive?
The commander Jean-Baptiste Estachy: It is impossible to decide on the percentage of survival, to say what state we will find them, it depends on too many parameters. All we know is that when we lost telephone communication with them Friday because of dead battery, they were relatively healthy although extremely tired. They had found a shelter, they still had a stove in working order. Hope is still widely permitted. But here is their sixth day in the mountains, it's getting along ... Fatigue reduces the resistance to cold. We know too that's how long stays at high altitude can do in terms of frostbite, hypothermia ...
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