The canyonist left the day before in the canyon of Olhadubie in Larrau in Soule. He would then have dropped about 20 meters and fell to the foot of a waterfall and received himself in a very small basin of water, between stones and tree trunk.
The accident would have occurred around noon this Monday.
Intervention at daybreak
Wounded, he could not warn the emergency services for lack of a network. It was his father who, Monday evening not seeing him come back, warned the emergency services.
Immediately, the firefighters of the Mountain Rescue group and an SMUR doctor started researching the Dragon 64 helicopter. They finally spotted the unfortunate around 4 am.
Unable to get the unfortunate out at night, the emergency services installed a hot spot on the spot and its evacuation was able to start at daybreak.
According to help, ‘man remained around 20 hours blocked alone, showing “great resistance to cold, near a waterfall, wet and windy area”.
Affected in the basin and the spine, the man was evacuated to the Pau hospital this Tuesday morning in “absolute” emergency.