A 21-year-old young man who had just set off in a paraglider from the Col de l’Arc, in the town of Saint-Paul-de-Varces, suffered a violent return to the ground, this Monday, May 30 around 8:30 a.m. .
Alerted, the rescuers from Isere’s high mountain gendarmerie unit (PGHM), arrived at the scene aboard the Civil Security helicopter. They were accompanied by a Samu 38 doctor. Paraglider, who was suffering from trauma dorsal and needed to be medicalized, was flown to the CHU Grenoble Alpes.