A French mountaineer died after he was trapped under snow in the mountains nearby the hotel in Armenian Aghveran.

His body was transported to the city by the Defense Ministry helicopter and the other four mountaineers were taken to Aghveran Resort hotel.

As reported earlier, on Friday at 11:05am, the 911 emergency hotline received a report that five mountaineers—who are French citizens—had climbed a mountain nearby a hotel in Aghveran.

One of them, however, had become trapped under snow, the friends of this mountaineer had quickly pulled this person out of the pile of snow, but the French national had lost consciousness, and therefore rescuers were needed.

A helicopter from the Ministry of Defense of Armenia has arrived to search for the French citizen who got lost at a mountain.

The rescuers crossed the noted section on foot for more than seven kilometers, the area was very difficult to pass, the snow there was 2.5 to 3 meters high, but found these mountaineers who had gotten lost.