Adèle Milloz

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Adèle Milloz
Milloz in 2017
Personal information
Born(1996-05-05)5 May 1996
Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie, France
Died12 August 2022(2022-08-12) (aged 26)
Aiguille du Peigne [fr], Mont Blanc
Alma materNational Ski and Mountaineering School
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight52 kg (115 lb)[1]
Sport
Country France
SportSki mountaineering

Adèle Milloz (5 May 1996 – 12 August 2022) was a French ski mountaineer. She competed at the 2017 Winter Military World Games, winning a gold medal.

Life[edit]

She was born in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie, France on 5 May 1996.[1]

At the 2018 European Championships in Nicolosi, she won a gold medal in the sprint discipline.[1][2]

She retired from the sport in 2019, and began her studies to become a mountain guide.

Death[edit]

Milloz died on 12 August 2022, at the age of 26, together with another mountaineer, in an accident on Mont Blanc, along the normal route on the Aiguille du Peigne [fr] side.[3][4][5] Other people have died on the same slope previously.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Adèle Milloz ✝". SkiMo Stats. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. ^ "SKI TRAB, Adèle Milloz". www.skitrab.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Adèle Milloz, campionessa sci alpinismo morta sul Monte Bianco". la Repubblica (in Italian). 13 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  4. ^ "La championne du monde de ski alpinisme Adèle Milloz décède dans le massif du Mont-Blanc". Le HuffPost (in French). 14 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Adèle Milloz, world champion skier in para mountaineering, died after a fall in the Mont-Blanc massif". West Observer. 14 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Chamonix: un grimpeur fait une chute de 100m sur l'aiguille du Peigne". Le Messager (in French). 5 August 2019.

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