Cherbourg Climber Dies on Andes: Shock & Details

And French mountaineer East deceased while he attempted to climb the mount Aconcagua in Argentina, Monday 19 January 2026announced the Argentine media. It is about Guillaume Ferey. The man lived in the North Cotentin and worked in the field of nuclear for Orano Projects. He was aged 33 ans.

He was trying to climb the roof of America

According to South American media, Guillaume Ferey passed out while he was close to the top. This mountain, nicknamed the “Colossus of America”is the highest in Argentina. It peaks at 6 700 meters of altitude.

According to the journal A from Mendoza, the expedition guide alerted the emergency services by radio at 11:57 a.m., reporting that the climber was no longer present signs of life and had lost consciousness. Despite the intervention of emergency services, the thirty-year-old could not be resuscitated.

His badminton club in shock

Guillaume Ferey was part of the section badminton du PLO (Secular Patronage of Octeville) for four years. For the last two years, he was captain of the D3 team.

For his teammates, it is choc.

Guillaume was a very discreet person.

“Guillaume was someone very discreet. The announcement of his death was a shock, especially sincehe didn’t talk about his personal life. In August, he made the decision not to take a license again to prepare for a big personal project. I didn’t know exactly what it was… He had to retake his license in February. He loved playing with his colleagues,” explains Raymond Legrand, head of the badminton section at PLO.

Several badists, currently on a ski trip, send their most sincere condolences to the family of Guillaume Ferey.

L’evacuation of the victim’s body had to be taken quickly to an aerial extraction zone, located at an altitude of 6,000 meters, specifies The Andes.

This is the second death recorded on Aconcagua since the beginning of 2026report the Argentine media. At the beginning of January, Konstantin Bitiukov, a 55-year-old Russian, also died of cardiorespiratory arrest at an altitude of 6,800 meters.

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