US EditionThree people killed and two missing after avalanche in Italy
- On Sunday, five German climbers died in an avalanche after setting out yesterday to scale Cima Vertana, mountain in the Ortler mountain range near Solda in the Italian Alps.
- The Ortler massif, a popular climbing destination, was the site of the avalanche that caught two separate rope teams on Cima Vertana in South Tyrol, near the Swiss border.
- Italy's alpine rescue services said the first rope team of three was completely buried, and rescue teams confirmed two climbers were dragged to the avalanche channel's lower part on Sunday.
- Recovery teams located victims across two recovery periods, yesterday and Sunday morning, finding two men and a woman yesterday and a father and his 17-year-old daughter on Sunday morning.
- Search operations had been delayed by poor weather, complicating the response while two other climbers escaped unharmed and two mountaineers from a second team of four survived.
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Italian mountain rescue services reported this Sunday that five German mountaineers died on Saturday after an avalanche that occurred near the summit of the Cima Vertana, in Trentino-Alto Adige (north of Italy).The avalanche began early in the afternoon at more than 3,000 meters of altitude and buried two German expeditions that ascended the massif of Ortles, near the Swiss border.
Five German mountaineers died this Saturday near the summit of the Cima Vertana in Trentino-Haut Adige (northern Italy) in the Alps. Among them, a father and his 17-year-old daughter with a tragic destiny.
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Five people have died, including a father and daughter, after an avalanche in the Italian Alps.The five - all German climbers - had been travelling in separate groups up the Dolomites in a bid to scale the Cima Vertana or Vertainspitze.The 3.5-kilometre high peak sits in the Ortler mountain range near the village of Solda, in Italy's German-speaking northeast.At around 4pm on Saturday local time, the cascade of snow hit.Italian Alpine rescue ser…
Avalanche kills five Germans in Italian alps
Five German mountaineers have died after being caught in an avalanche on Saturday, November 1, in South Tyrol, northern Italy. The avalanche struck near the summit of Cima Vertana in the Ortler mountain range, at over 3,500 metres. Rescue teams recovered three of the victims, two men and a woman, on Saturday. The remaining two, a man and his 17-year-old daughter, were located on Sunday after an… Source
Avalanche Kills 5 German Climbers in Sudden Alpine Horror
Five German mountaineers were killed after an avalanche struck them in the Ortles mountain range in northern Italy’s South Tyrol region on Saturday afternoon. Alpine rescue teams confirmed the final two bodies—belonging to a man and his 17-year-old daughter—were recovered Sunday morning, completing the grim operation. Three of the victims, two men and a woman, were found dead shortly after the avalanche hit near Cima Vertana at an altitude of ov…
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