Daring Rescue Work With ’Copters
Fails to Save Two on Mt. Blanc
CHAMONIX, France, —Dar-<
ing helicopter pilots yesterday
snatched eight marooned alpin
ists from the snow-swept slopes
of Mt. Blanc but gave up hope
for two more frostbitten climbers
marooned on Europe’s highest
■peak for 12 days.
The rescue pilots had hoped to
hover above 1 le pair—French
man Jean Cincendon, 23, and Bel
gian Francois Henry, 24—and
lower men down to put them in
baskets hanging from the ’copter,
but this proved impossible.
Both may already have died.
Suffering from extreme frostbite,
they were bundled in the wreck
of a helicopter which crashed
earlier trying to save them.
The two young men had set out
two days ‘before Christmas to
scale Mt. Blanc despite adverse
weather forecasts.
Two light Alouette helicopters
succeeded in making shuttle land
ings at the 12,000-foot level,
where the eight men were hud
dled in a climbers’ shelter. But
there was no landing spot near
Vincendon and Henry, several
hundred yards away.
The eight men had been trapped
on the 15,781-foot mountain in
earlier rescue attempts, four of
them when their helicopter had
crashed near the two climbers.
The other four had parachuted to
the site.
Unable to move the helpless
pair far because of the hazardous
weather conditions, the would-be
rescuers bundled them into sleep-1
ing bags in the wreckage and then |
made the perilous climb to the I
shelter.
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The rescue flights got under
way at dawn with the first favor
able helicopter flying weather in
two weeks. The harried pilots had
the eight men down in three
hours.
A final try at rescuing Vince
don and Henry was made by the
French helicopter pilot Jean Bou
let, who holds the world’s heli
copter altitude record, and Com
mandant Legall, director of the
rescue operations.
On their last flight violent wind
currents and a thick storm of
powdered snow blown up by the
helicopter rotors prevented the
aircraft from getting close to the
trapped pair.
“Henry and Vincedon are dead
or in a coma,” said Legall. “We
cannot risk new lives to bring
their bodies down. The bodies will
be abandoned until springtime.”
All the rescued men were hos
pitalized, suffering from various
degrees of frostbite. Some were
in serious condition.
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