[3] Descending from Le Plaret, the group left the glacier, successfully passed the crevasse zone, unroped and ate a meal.

In front of his horrified companions, he performed a standing glissade down a steep snow slope above the glacial torrent of La Clause below the surface.

The snow surface broke suddenly and Cordier was carried away by the white water under the ice and drowned.

[1][2][5][8] Jakob Anderegg was lowered into the twelve-foot hole on a rope, but could find no trace of Cordier and nearly suffocated before being pulled up.

As he amused himself by slipping on the snowy slope, he was alerted by his guides and replied, "Ne vous inquiétez pas, je vais m'arrêter sur ce rocher noir" ("Do not worry, I'll stop on the black rock").