A speleologist dies during a school outing in a cave in Isère

A professional speleologist who supervised an outing of college students, Thursday, May 5, in a cave in Isère, was found dead by the emergency services after a rise in water, the other participants being safe and sound, announced the prefecture. At the end of the morning, during its ascent to the surface, the group was surprised by the rising waters in the Cuves de Sassenage, a cave near Grenoble. The accompanying persons brought out all the children, middle school students in fifth grade in a college in Saint-Ismier (Isère). But three adults – two guides and a teacher – remained stranded underground, including the deceased caver. Two other adults found safe and sound An evacuation operation was launched “as soon as a favorable weather window presented itself”, after 7:30 p.m., specifies the prefecture in a press release. “During their progress, the rescuers discovered a body identified as that of one of the two guides,” she adds. The teacher and the second guide, refugees in an underground cavity, were found safe and sound, and brought to the surface. The Grenoble public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the circumstances of the accident. The intervention mobilized the Group of reconnaissance and intervention in perilous environments (Grimp), the firefighters and the cave rescue of Isère, the CRS Alpes, the SAMU, the Platoon of high mountain gendarmerie (PGHM) as well as the Isère gendarmerie group. The World with AFP