Adèle Milloz

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

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

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

  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. Archived from the original on 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.