Image source: The Summits Of My Life
Stéphane Brosse, 41, died Sunday morning 17 June in an Aiguille d’Argentière mountain accident while he and trail runner Kilian Jornet were on touring skis between Contamines in France and Champex in Switzerland.
The pair were not roped together. At 10h50, the pair were crossing an edge at 3900m when snow ledge gave way under their weight. Brosse fell 700 metres to his death. Jornet immediately signaled for assistance, but rescuers found Brosse dead on arrival.
Jornet was unharmed in the incident.
Brosse won the Swiss Army’s Glacier Patrol in 2006 and had won numerous other races in France and at the European and international level.
Brosse was accompanying Jornet in the Summits Of My Life project: the first of a four year venture of speed records attempts on six peaks across the globe. Watch the video here.
Our condolences to Brosse’s family and friends.
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Mountains aren’t playgrounds. If you look for it, it will find you.
so sad to lose a great runner. can only hope he was enjoying the day upto that point. it is all any of us can ask. thoughts to his family