Saturday 12 February 2022, the rescuers of the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) carried out six rescue operations using the civil security helicopter.
The day started at 10:30 a.m. in the Vallée Blanche to take care of a man injured after a fall on skis.
According to Le Dauphiné, the victim was dropped off at the Chamonix hospital center. In the sequence on the Rognons glacier, a man suffered a rib trauma and was airlifted to Chamonix hospital.
Around 11:00 a.m., the intervention was more delicate. A 16-year-old boy fractured his femur in the snowpark of the Tour ski area. He was transported to Sallanches hospital. Then in the early afternoon around 2:00 p.m., the mountain rescue day continued under the Aiguille du Tricot. A man with back pain was treated at the Sallanches hospital center.
Around 2:10 p.m., return to the Vallée Blanche precisely at the end of the route, to evacuate a woman with ankle injury.
Finally the day ended with the care of a man who cut his thigh with his ski edge. The civil security helicopter evacuated him to Sallanches hospital.
Source: @Le Dauphiné Libéré
