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.
 Milloz in 2017 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 May 1996 Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie, France |
| Died | 12 August 2022 (aged 26) Aiguille du Peigne, Mont Blanc |
| Alma mater | National Ski and Mountaineering School |
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country |  France |
| Sport | Ski mountaineering |
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 side.[3][4][5] Other people have died on the same slope previously.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Adèle Milloz ✝". SkiMo Stats. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
- ^ "SKI TRAB, Adèle Milloz". www.skitrab.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
- ^ "Adèle Milloz, campionessa sci alpinismo morta sul Monte Bianco". la Repubblica (in Italian). 13 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Chamonix: un grimpeur fait une chute de 100m sur l'aiguille du Peigne". Le Messager (in French). 5 August 2019.
