The body of Thierry Renault, one of the great French alpinists of the 80s and 90s, has been found.
The 68-year-old high mountain guide would have died when the rope he was hanging from while equipping a climbing route was cut by a rock outcropping.
French mountaineer Thierry Renault, 68, was found dead at the foot of the Brévent wall in Chamonix, France, on September 6. The gendarmerie determined that his body had been there since the previous day. According to preliminary findings, Renault's death was likely caused by a rope snapping while he was working on a new route on the south face, which got cut on a rock edge.
This incident draws comparisons to the 1977 death of Belgian climber Claude Barbier, who died under unclear circumstances in the Paradou wall in Namur province.
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