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Zee News
| 10 months ago
An Italian Alpine rescue team military official said the bodies of a Polish woman and Spanish man were found 4,400 metres up on the Dome du Gouter peak on the Italian-French border last night after spending more than 24 hours in a snow hole. Rescue...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
14 July 2012 A rescuer who searched for the three British climbers caught up in last week's avalanche in the French Alps told yesterday of the desperate race to save them and the terrible moment he realised they were dead. French guide Yann Delevaux,...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Recently, the head of the UK branch of G4S, the largest private security firm in the world, predicte... Suggested Topics A memorial service was held yesterday for nine climbers, including three British men, killed in an avalanche in the French Alps.
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
French Alps town of Chamonix, one for each of the foreign climbers killed by an avalanche two days earlier. "They left us too quickly, like a flame extinguished too soon by a violent gust of wind before it could give its full light," parish priest...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
A church service will take place in Chamonix later to remember nine climbers, including three British men, who died in an avalanche in the French Alps...Steve Barber and John Taylor, both from the village of Upper Poppleton, York, also lost their...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Suddenly the snow came, Daniel Rossetto, a veteran Chamonix mountain guide, said by telephone from his hospital bed...He escaped with broken ribs and an injured shoulder, and his two clients, both from Denmark, survived. The avalanche that carried...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
On a train ride from Glasgow to London I was privy to a not-so-private conversation between a couple... Mbungu Nlandu Ange lost his wife and children and his freedom when his village of Makombo, in the De... Recently, the head of the UK branch of G4S,...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Footage from the avalanche shows only the aftermath of the early morning tragedy: rescue personnel hovering around the site on the north face of Mont Maudit, part of the Mont Blanc range tending to the injured climbers submerged in snow. Helicopters...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Roger Payne, Steve Barber and John Taylor were killed by an avalanche while climbing Mont Maudit (Handouts) The three British climbers killed by an avalanche near Mont Blanc in the French Alps have been named. Two of the men, John Taylor, 48, and...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Danish mountaineer Thomas Vybro thought as he was swept away by an Alpine avalanche that crushed the life out of nine of his companions. Mr Vybro, 30, his friend Alex Peterson, 29, and their guide Daniel Rosetto, 63, were lucky to be caught just by...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
A church memorial service is scheduled Saturday in Chamonix, France, for nine mountain climbers killed in an avalanche near a ski resort, officials said. The climbers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Switzerland died Thursday in the French...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 10 months ago
France (AP) It was nearly impossible to foresee the deadly avalanche on Mont Blanc, officials said Friday, as survivors of the slide that killed nine climbers described being tossed and trapped by a wave of snow that hit without a sound. Three...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
Back in September 2011 a police raid on a travellers' site in Bedfordshire uncovered a story that le... The more time you spend on the road, the more important those small moments of fun to stop us all go... Due to legal reasons, any reporting of the...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 10 months ago
The husband of a New Zealand mountaineer was among those killed under an avalanche on a peak in France. Nine climbers died on Mont Maudit in the French Alps when their group was struck by an avalanche on Thursday (local time). They were all from...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Three British mountaineers were among nine people swept to their deaths in an avalanche apparently triggered by another climber in the French Alps on Thursday. Another two Britons were found alive last night having been reported missing following the...
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Xtra News
| 10 months ago
NZer's husband dies in Alps avalanche NZ Newswire July 13, 2012, 7:01 pm The husband of a New Zealand woman was one of nine people who died in a French avalanche...Ms Clyma is a highly-experienced climber who usually climbed with her husband in...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
The disaster-stricken Mont Blanc climbers were warned about the Chamonix avalanche which killed nine people including three Britons, officials in the French Alps say. Heavy snowfall and gusty winds were already present around Mont Blanc before the...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
13 July 2012 A British mountain guide was among nine climbers killed by the deadliest avalanche in years' in the French Alps yesterday. Roger Payne, 55, who wrote a training programme on avoiding avalanches, was one of three Britons swept more than...
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The Sun UK
| 10 months ago
Britons and six other climbers to their deaths on the Cursed Mountain. The nine victims were buried alive by a massive avalanche that engulfed them as they made a dawn ascent in the French Alps yesterday. The dead were among a 28-strong party roped...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Back in September 2011 a police raid on a travellers' site in Bedfordshire uncovered a story that le... The more time you spend on the road, the more important those small moments of fun to stop us all go... Due to legal reasons, any reporting of the...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
Experienced climber Roger Payne, pictured in the Himalayas, has been identified as one of the British victims One of the three Britons killed in the Mount Maudit avalanche has been identified as a respected climber and former president of the British...
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
July 12, 2012 A French Gendarmerie helicopter takes off to search for survivors of an avalanche that killed at least nine years. (Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/GettyImages) At least nine climbers were killed in an avalanche on the side of a mountain in the...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
French officials say that two people remain unaccounted for in the Alpine avalanche that took at least nine lives and injured 12 other people. Officials had earlier said that four climbers trying to scale Mont Blanc were unaccounted for after the...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
I left Chamonix on Sunday evening after a stag weekend there. We were watching the Wimbledon final in one of the bars to kill some time. English guys were sat next to us and said they were due to climb Mont Blanc this week. Richard, Huddersfield UK,...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 10 months ago
31 AM Friday Jul 13, 2012 Four climbers thought missing after a deadly avalanche in the French Alps are alive and have been accounted for, with two having cancelled their climb and two having chosen a different route, police said. "The toll will...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images Mont Blanc rescuers search for survivors after avalanche kills nine. Link to this video The avalanche that claimed the lives of nine climbers, including three Britons, on one of the satellite peaks of Mont Blanc...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
French Alps, killing at least nine people, the deadliest such disaster there in a decade. Most of the dead found after the avalanche on Mont Maudit, which translates as ''Cursed Mountain'', were Europeans, police said. At least two Germans, two Swiss...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
An avalanche near a French Alpine ski resort Thursday killed nine people and injured nine others, with four people still missing, officials said. The deceased were from Spain, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the BBC reported.
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
At least nine European climbers were swept to their deaths early Thursday by an avalanche that left at least 11 injured and four climbers unaccounted for in France's Mont Blanc mountain range, authorities said. Officials believe the avalanche, at...
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Typically Spanish
| 10 months ago
The death toll in the tragedy is nine, and four more are missing. Two Spaniards are among the nine to die in an avalanche in the French Alps in the early hours of Thursday. Four people remained missing when the search was called off in the evening.
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
A slab of ice broke off Thursday high in the French Alps , sparking an avalanche that swept nine Europeans to their deaths as they tried to climb Mont Blanc , authorities said. Eleven other climbers were hospitalized and at least four are still...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Alamy There is an Alpine adage, recounted by Colin Fraser in his book Avalanches and Snow Safety, that runs like this: "What flies without wings, strikes without hand and sees without eyes?...In the 17th century avalanches were considered to be so...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Mont Blanc fatal avalanches timeline A recent history of avalanche deaths on the Mont Blanc range in the French Alps Avalanches in the Mont Blanc region have claimed many lives. Photograph: Loetscher Chlaus/Alamy August 1985 Two Spanish climbers die...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Nine mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche near Chamonix in the French Alps on Thursday and rescue workers were searching for four others still missing, authorities said. The most deadly avalanche in the Alps since 2008 swept down a popular...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
The avalanche, which struck near to the French Alpine ski resort of Chamonix, happened at around 5am this morning. Rescuers were alerted to the incident about twenty five minutes later...A Swiss national, a German and two Spaniards were among the...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Rescuers are using a helicopter and heat-seeking device for finding missing tourists, who are said to be 28 in number and of different nationalities. Nationals from Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Serbia were believed to be involved...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
An avalanche Thursday in the French Alps swept six European climbers to their deaths on a slope leading to Mont Blanc , left at least nine others injured and several climbers unaccounted for, authorities said. Two climbers were rescued and emergency...
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Ansa
| 10 months ago
Rescue workers continue to search for four missing climbers and the death toll has risen to nine following an avalanche on Mt Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps on the border between France and Italy, authorities said Thursday. Two Germans, two...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Patrick Gardin/AP The traverse of the icy balconies of Mont Maudit, where at least nine climbers have been killed by an avalanche , is one of the most popular routes of the Alps . As well as being beautiful, the route up Monte Blanc is easy to access...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Two groups of climbers were caught in the avalanche on the north side of Mont Maudit, on the French-Italian border, police said. A total of 28 climbers between the two groups were connected by ropes, authorities in Annecy, France, said. A mountain...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Five Britons feared dead Five Britons among seven missing climbers feared dead after avalanche strikes during group ascent on Mont Maudit Mont Blanc avalanche An emergency services helicopter searches for survivors of the tragedy in Chamonix, France.
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Five Britons are among a number of mountaineers missing following an avalanche in the Alps which killed at least six climbers, according to reports. A major rescue operation is under way following the disaster on Mont Maudit, near...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
ET Six climbers were killed and six others were injured in an avalanche in the French Alps early today. More than two dozen people from several countries were in the climbing expedition when the avalanche struck on the Mont Blanc range.
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Al Jazeera
| 10 months ago
05 An avalanche in the French Alps has killed six people and searches were under way to find several missing people, the Paris government has said. The avalanche, which swept down a mountainside in the Mont Blanc range near the border with...
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The Observer
| 11 months ago
Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images An avalanche on Mont Blanc in France has killed six climbers and injured at least eight others, according to mountain rescue services. A number of people are still missing on the slope known as Mont Maudit (...
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The Sun UK
| 11 months ago
Stories Mountain rescue were dispatched at dawn to the disaster zone in the Mont Blanc massif mountain range. Local authorities described the avalanche as the most deadly of recent years and confirmed foreigners may be among the victims...All of the...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Col de Maudit, near Chamonix (Wikipedia) Six people have died and seven were injured in an avalanche on the Col de Maudit, near French Alps' renowned ski location of Chamonix. The victims, which include non-French nationals, were swept away by an...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Authorities say an avalanche in the French Alps has left six climbers dead and six injured, and rescuers are searching for others unaccounted for.
The gendarme service in Chamonix says they were alerted around 5:25 a.m. (0325GMT)...
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Sky News
| 11 months ago
At least six people have been killed and eight injured in an avalanche in the Alps' Mont Blanc massif, French mountain police have said. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene after one of the injured sounded the alert at around 3.25am (4.
