A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps.<\/p>\n
The woman fell from her raft shortly after noon local time (11:00 BST) on Saturday on the Guisane river in Briancon, in south-eastern France, the regional prosecutor Marion Lozac’hmeur told French news agency AFP.<\/p>\n
She was later found on the riverbank before being airlifted to a nearby hospital in a serious condition, firefighters told local media.<\/p>\n
Lozac’hmeur said the victim “unfortunately died yesterday evening”.<\/p>\n
The Foreign Office confirmed a British woman had died in France, and said it was in touch with the local authorities.<\/p>\n
The woman had been part of an organised trip on the river and was traversing a section of the river known as “the wallet” when she fell, according to local news outlet Le Dauphine.<\/p>\n
She has not been named, either in local media or by authorities in France or the UK.<\/p>\n
An “involuntary manslaughter” investigation had been opened and an autopsy will be conducted, Lozac’hmeur also said.<\/p>\n
Last year, a British man died after getting into difficulty on the river Durance, which also passes through Briancon.<\/p>\n
He had been part of a kayaking group in June 2024 after a period of heavy snowmelt upstream, local newspaper Le Dauphine reported. Two others were rescued uninjured.<\/p>\n
Both the Guisane and Durance are popular rivers for white water rafting, fed by glaciers and snowmelt in the spring. <\/p>\n
They have sections of challenging rapids, but are usually only navigable for two or three months in early summer, according to Briancon’s official website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps. The woman fell from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-278371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887806485486958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}